gardener's delight

1. 1.

   an old cottage garden plant of southeastern Europe widely cultivated for its attractive white woolly foliage and showy crimson flowers

   Synonymsmullein pinkrose campiondusty millerLychnis coronaria

   Broaderlychnis

Questions about gardener's delight

What does gardener's delight mean?

gardener's delight means "an old cottage garden plant of southeastern Europe widely cultivated for its attractive white woolly foliage and showy crimson flowers".

What is another word for gardener's delight?

Close synonyms include mullein pink, rose campion, dusty miller, Lychnis coronaria. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gardener's delight a common word?

gardener's delight is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.