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garden heliotrope

noun

  1. the common valerian, Valeriana officinalis, especially when cultivated as an ornamental.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of garden heliotrope1

First recorded in 1900–05
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Example Sentences

No garden can aspire to be named An Old-fashioned Garden unless it contains that beautiful plant the Garden Valerian, known throughout New England to-day as Garden Heliotrope; as Setwall it grew in every old garden, as it was in every pharmacopœia.

It is in no way an attractive plant, as compared with our garden heliotrope, as its flowers have a washed-out look and are not at all fragrant, while its pale stems and foliage lack color and character.

Here in this garden, Heliotrope, hyacinth, soft suns to light me, Leaning out, peering, thou, thou art my warden— Thou, Aphrodite!

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