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Bouncing Bet   /bˈaʊnsɪŋ bɛt/   Listen
Bouncing Bet

noun
1.
Plant of European origin having pink or white flowers and leaves yielding a detergent when bruised.  Synonyms: bouncing Bess, hedge pink, Saponaria officinalis, soapwort.






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"Bouncing bet" Quotes from Famous Books



... garden of mine. You see right off how tiring and dazzling the garden of too many little dots of colour could be. Look about in nature—see the beautiful range of the butterfly weed, the pinky purple of Joe Pye, the scarlet of cardinal flowers, the blue of certain asters, the pink of bouncing Bet, the yellow of tansy and goldenrod. Nature is constantly presenting perfect splashes of brilliant colour here and there. And yet it is not inharmonious. Why? One reason is that much of the colour is in great masses, and what is not has been ...
— The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. • Ellen Eddy Shaw



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