Sentences with phrase «as daffodil»

I want it to be a soft green, not as blue - green as a robin's egg, but not as yellow - green as daffodil buds.

Is it just my imagination or have we in New York had the delight of being on the receiving end of winter Nor'Easter s just as the daffodils were getting ready to come up each of the last few years?

As sure as daffodils follow snowdrops, the flock of new members landing on dating websites right about now is just another spring phenomenon to set your clock by.

Many other bulb plants are also poisonous such as daffodils and hyacinths.

Popular spring bulb varieties such as daffodils and tulips need sunny, dry spots in order to grow, so preferably choose to plant in areas with a good amount of sun.

Most bulbs can be grown in containers and larger flowers such as daffodils particularly thrive in a smaller environment.

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Such a «social constructionist» conception of science might seem as menacing to Hawking as it would to Wordsworth, both of whom need to believe that, whatever ontological affinities must be conceded, the distinction between daffodils and stinkweeds is grounded not only in the human intuition about the world but in the nature of things.

We've been going for walks as a family every evening, and I love seeing all the fresh daffodils and tulips, and the bright spring grass.

As the Spring settles in and my daffodils show their green stalks poking up out of the earth, I crave simplicity.

These Double Daffodils crepe paper flowers would look as gorgeous in a wedding bouquet as they would at home in a vase or as part of a paper posy.

To celebrate the launch of her new nature - inspired crepe papers, Lia Griffith is giving this Double Daffodil crepe paper flower tutorial as special freebie for Folksy readers — just scroll down to find the instructions and download the template.

For me there is rarely anything as satisfying as seeing bright yellow daffodils and smelling sweet hyacinth in the springtime.

For your baby's first experience with aromatherapy, take her to a location — outdoors, a plant nursery, a botanical garden, a florist — where you can find fragrant flowers such as lavender, daffodils, freesias, or roses.

I haven't used a carnation really must as your pictures show a much better effect than we have with the daffodil

Once J had picked the Daffodil from the garden we looked at the flower and I pointed out the petals and then where the nectar is — he knew this from his book — Bee and Me: a Mini-motion Book which he got for his birthday last year and loves to read as the pages move.

Whenever you go outdoors, be sure to use it as a learning opportunity — count the buds appearing on your favorite tree, classify the birds that you see and hear, measure the stalks of daffodils and tulips and find patterns in ferns and spider webs.

After 2 days the process had completely finished and with the Daffodil flower there was a ring of blue / green dots around the outer edge of the petals and trumpet, as well as some lighter green colouring to the veins within the petals which the food colouring had gone through.

Given the many hours spent nursing, I've had plenty of time to enjoy the thoughtful details of the design --- the mix of floral with rose, thistle, daffodil and shamrock as well as the acorns and oak leaves from the Middleton family's coat of arms.

Notes: A flat petaled flower such as an orchid, pansy, or daffodil work nicely along with small flat leaves for these easter eggs.

I was hoping the Daffodil Mix would show up in this outfit as a pop of yellow and I am not disappointed!

Trashy Diva offered to send me their Jolene wrap dress from their new Deco Daffodil line, a dress more 40s than my usual 50s fare, so I happily took it as an opportunity to embrace a style I usually overlook.

As I write this post, it's snowing again here in East Tennessee, even though the daffodils are blooming and tulips have popped up readying to bloom.

This is quickly followed by the first daffodils, and here they are everywhere, growing wild in the country as they emerge from hedgerows and pop up in fields to make our walks just that little bit prettier.

It's definitely a feel - good colour, as demonstrated perfectly by the dominant spring flowers here right now: daffodils, dandelions, celandines and primroses.

I especially like including potted spring flowers, like daffodils and hydrangeas, as you can plant the bulbs outside to be enjoyed year after year.

The decadently, rich collection began with a bang as three enchanting evening gowns — in daffodil, emerald, and red — floated down the runway resembling whimsical gliding parachutes.

The picture blames his latent tendencies on an overbearing mother (Dame Judi Dench) who'd cruelly discouraged him as a youngster from exploring his curiosity about cross-dressing by issuing dire warnings like, «I'd rather have a dead son than a daffodil for a son.»

The teaser one - sheet established this as the very first Paul Rudd vehicle, assuming you could recognize him in his Jesus look laying in a field of daffodils with orange Crocs.

Daffodils are starting to sprout through the surface as are some of my tulips.

It includes a wealth of information and contains references to How March got its name (Mars - the God of War), things associated with March - daffodils, Zodiac signs, birthstone, Equinox, Spring, sayings «as mad as a March hare» Special Days in March - Easter, St Patrick's Day, Saint David's Day, Saint Piran's Day, Saint Joseph's Day, Women's History Month, Simnel Sunday, Mothering Sunday / Mother's Day, World Maths Day, the Jewish festival of Purim, International Women's Day, World Water Day, Lady Day (the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary), Oranges and Lemons Children's Service, World Book Day Notable Birthdays — Will I Am, Albert Einstein, Frederic Chopin, Dr Seuss (Theodor Geisel), Alexander Graham Bell, Vivaldi, Michelangelo, nat King Cole, Steve McQueen, Robbie Coltrane, Wilfred Owen, Fernando Torres, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ronaldinho, Alan Sugar, Harry Houdini, Vincent Van Gogh Discoveries, Launches, Inventions — Twitter, Barbie Doll, Coca - Cola, discovery of Uranus, the first elevator, Rolls Royce, first internet domain name, English football league, telephone patented Notable Events and Happenings — Great Flood of Sheffield, Knighthood of Paul McCartney, release of first Beatles album, «Titanic» won 11 Academy Awards It also contains hyperlinks to - Vivaldi's Four Seasons Spring (La Primavera)- Bach's «Air on G String» - St Clement's bells ringing «Orange and Lemons» - Chopin's Etude Op. 25 No. 11 «Winter Wind» - The Beatles «Please, Please Me» - Hares «boxing» A simple text version of this presentation, more appropriate for younger / SEN pupils is also available.

This worksheets asks students to read extracts from The Tyger, The Highwayman, Daffodils, Sonnet 18, The Lady Of Shallott and Blackberry Picking and predicts when they were written as well as draw pictures to represent what they see when reading the extract

The damp, chilly air, portending rain, reminded Raymond Ambler of playing baseball as a boy on such a day, the grass recently starting to grow in green, forsythia bright yellow against the dull gray of the day, daffodils bobbing in the cold wind in the yards of row houses across the street from the parade grounds in Windsor Terrace.

The result is a dynamic, layered effect that allows the reader to sink progressively deeper into the Lamb family, as opposed to the traditional approach of going forward through a linear plot progression... While stylistic parallels to Wordsworth's daffodils are evident throughout the novel, Greene's characters function with independence and resolution that bring the American transcendentalists - Emerson, Thoreau - more readily to mind.

As always, I put a vase of daffodils in front of the headstone.

The cause could have been a common garden plant like lilies or daffodils, a household or automotive fluid, medications, or human foods such as chocolate or garlic.

The bulbs of flowers such as amaryllis, daffodils, jonquils, narcissus, hyacinth, and iris are poisonous, as are azaleas, holly berries, hydrangea, ligustrum, privet hedges, oleander, English ivy, jasmine, and wisteria.

Many common plants, including azaleas, daffodils, day and Easter lilies, holly, laurels, pointsettias, and philodendrons, are popular as decorations in our houses, but birds and other exotic pets should be kept far away all of them.

The rest of the garden didn't take the second place as there was a fountain surrounded with tulips and daffodils, a garden house all comfortably furnished with a dinner table in the middle of a well - maintained lawn and a vegs - patch at the back of the garden.

Also known as the Garden of Europe, the Keukenhof Gardens are home to over 32 hectares, filled with more than seven million tulips, daffodils and hyacinths.

Select from two luxurious and modern properties, Dantosa House and Dantosa Cottage, close to the World Heritage Blue Mountains National Park and enjoy the serene lake view and stunning view of daffodils and hydrangeas as part of the 9 acre property.

The gardens only open in the spring, providing an incredible seasonal display of tulips, crocuses, daffodils and other flowering plants; millions of bulbs are planted each year and flowers of every hue sway in the breeze as far as the eye can see.

JMcK: Works such as Three Fingers / The Stolen Daffodil (2015) have the spatial quality of David Hockney's early work.

In this simple but effective watercolour floral lesson, Siân covers a surprisingly wide variety of tips as she paints an eye - catching dancing daffodil.

As it happens, we are going to paint daffodils in my next watercolour class.

Since then, he has enjoyed numerous solo shows in venues such as Kenny Gallery (Galway 2004, 2008), Waterford Festival (2005), Garreth O'Connor & Associates (Dublin 2006), Daffodil Gallery (Skerries 2007), Gormleys Gallery (Belfast 2007), Barbara Stanley Gallery (London 2008).

«As scientists, it's a little humbling that we've kind of been saying this for 20 years now, and it's not until people notice daffodils coming out in December that they start to say, «Maybe they're right.»»

While it's a third - party solution and isn't by any means as integrated as a native feature, Unification by Liquid Daffodil provides consumers with a centralised location where notifications from supported apps are stored.

was in the works as an independent notification system for Windows Phone 8 and how this will be competing with Liquid Daffodil's proposed Unification system, which is already in early beta testing.

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As such, personal and career rewards emerge, like the hearty daffodils that confidently push through the harsh cold ground of winter.