It works especially well for flowers with thin, delicate petals, such as lobelia, heather, campanula, and many herbs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drying Flowers from Your Garden] Reference

Planted more red lobelia yesterday that was on sale!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inspiring Wheelbarrow And A Little Guest « Fairegarden] Reference

Ayla smelled sage, and less pronounced, mullein and lobelia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mammoth Hunters]

Sometimes they were given a type of oil called "lobelia oil.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3] Reference

A stroke caused by an overdose of lobelia damaged his prospects.    From Wordnik.com.  [America's First Dynasty] Reference

Valerian, blue cohosh, and lobelia are excellent antispasmodic herbs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gentle Healing for Baby and Child] Reference

My chives have sprouted, and my lobelia may have, but I don't think so.    From Wordnik.com.  [26th April '03] Reference

Important: be careful not to overdose lobelia, which could cause vomiting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gentle Healing for Baby and Child] Reference

In the hot July and August, the scarlet lobelia, the cardinal-flower, is to be found.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860] Reference

For the space of a dozen or twenty yards grew a patch of absolutely nothing but lobelia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860] Reference

Purple lobelia rioted over the verges of the path, and the roses raised sunny faces skyward.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lightkeeper]

Scads of petunias, lobelia, fancy begonias and geraniums, sweet potato vines, even a bromeliad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Garden Goddess for Hire] Reference

Alyssum and lobelia look pretty cascading over the edge but usually succumb to our hot summers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Containers-Part One « Fairegarden] Reference

And the bright and graceful lobelia cardinalis that loves the neighbourhood of the still waters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1] Reference

In severe cases apply poultices of ground flaxseed, sprinkled over with golden seal and lobelia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics] Reference

One zone is known for its six-meter-high heather covered in moss, another for its giant lobelia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ruwenzori (Rwenzori) Mountains, Africa] Reference

Also potted a pink peony my favourite flower as I recall I told you about also with some blue lobelia.    From Wordnik.com.  [vivace - French Word-A-Day] Reference

Sanders 'for some lobelia, but ascertained that the road was picketed, so that he could not get through.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel A. Agnew : September 27, 1863-June 30, 1864,] Reference

Also potted a pink peony (my favourite flower as I recall I told you about) also with some blue lobelia.    From Wordnik.com.  [vivace - French Word-A-Day] Reference

As soon as the part begins to swell, wrap it with a cloth saturated thoroughly with the tincture of lobelia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference

Take pure olive oil, say one ounce, and half an ounce each of the tincture of lobelia and tincture of cayenne.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference

At that moment, however, she needed both hands and her eyes to get her comfrey and lobelia concentrate into its jug.    From Wordnik.com.  [Owlsight]

He demonstrated that the sap from the lobelia plant can be wiped on your skin to soothe wounds from stinging nettles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mountain Gorillas: Discovery Channel: Gorilla Food] Reference

He showed his affection by producing presents of the aforementioned asters, salvias, lobelia edging, and summer chrysanthemums.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mirror Cracked From Side To Side]

Take half an ounce each of green tea and lobelia herb, and tincture a few days in four ounces of alcohol and water, equal parts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference

Finishing the ice cream on the stoop, at sunset, while admiring the lobelia and poppies and roses and jacaranda and bougainvillea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yatima » 2009 » August] Reference

I especially love white geraniums and have just potted up some with some blue lobelia as I love that Mediterranean colour combination.    From Wordnik.com.  [vivace - French Word-A-Day] Reference

Take finely pulverized gum myrrh, bloodroot, and lobelia seed, or ipecac, of each half an ounce; gum camphor and nitre, of each two drams.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference

She liked the houseboats, too, with their gaily-striped awnings, their hanging baskets filled with gaudy pink geraniums and bright lobelia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making of a Soul] Reference

The next moment he lay on his own back in the lobelia pie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Longest Journey] Reference

A fellow-countryman of mine designed a shamrock in blue lobelia.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Padre in France] Reference

Border, dwarf blue ageratum; circle, blue lobelia; ground (3 parts), crimson alternanthera.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference