Sentences with phrase «as house plants»

Also gardenias are used as house plants.

Sweden About Blog Blogging about growing tropical plants in pots and containers as house plants.

For your degree show from the Royal College of Art last year, you bravely chose to exhibit your work in the art school's café area, filling it with bespoke tables, chairs and shelving units containing other textile, ceramic and wood objects as well as house plants poking out of a decoratively shaped hole in the wall.

Although beautiful as house plants, orchids have long been synonymous with a kind of tackiness when used too aggressively as wedding flowers, or solo in all - orchid arrangements — à la so many early aughts wedding mistakes.

Along with growing wild and being cherished as a house plant, Aloe Vera is commonly harvested for agricultural and medicinal purposes.

And if you travel, they are great as a house plant, as you only have water when the soil is dry.

The dragon tree is a popular plant found indoors due to its many favorable qualities as a house plant.

I love it as a house plant.

Not exact matches

As Bourque was giving his testimony, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they arrested a New Brunswick man after a call to a house fire resulted in the seizure of 485 marijuana plants.

Plans call for the converted warehouse to be used as a «nut house» when the new plant is complete, allowing ice cream with nuts to be made in an entirely separate facility.

The Trumps and Macrons helped plant a tree on the White House grounds together before boarding Trump's Marine One helicopter for a scenic tour of monuments built in the capital city designed by French - born Pierre L'Enfant as they flew south to Mount Vernon, the first U.S. president's home along the Potomac River.

GreenBuilt searched for a healthy, durable, climate resilient material that could provide high - quality permanent housing as well as temporary shelter, and hempcrete (a bio-composite made of the hemp plant's inner woody core combined with a lime - based binder) appeared to be a superior option because of its sustainability and carbon sequestration properties, as well as its potential to spur economic development.

The software connects to the cannabis company's point - of - sale system as well as the state's seed - to - sale system, which follows marijuana plants from the grow house until they're sold to a customer, to monitor the business and ensure compliance.

We buy houses, plant our roots, live quietly and try to make Babylon as nice as we can.

I think mary jane needs to be legalized not necessarily because of the hypocrisy and that we should have the «freedom» as much as the windfall of cash from growing it, selling it and taxing it, the medicinal properties it can be used for, the huge amount of space available in prisons that would open up and house criminals doing really bad things instead beng caught with a pound of a specific plant.

He judges by looks as well as flavor, planting his most beautiful discoveries on two acres of land by his house in Napa.

The seeds must be sown in a bed of hot horse dung, as musk melons are, and moved into a pot when [the plant] has gotten three or four leaves, that it may be carried from place to place more conveniently to receive the the heat of the sun; and in autumn carried into some house to avoid the injury of cold nights at that time of year when it is to bear fruit.

For a vegan recipe as mouth - watering as any that will be eaten by those wearing the green this year, we turned to our good friends at the Spiral House in Saugerties, New York, and their recently published book, For Goodness Sake: Plant - Based Recipes from the Spiral House Kitchen © 2015, featuring recipes by Chef Diane Hagedorn and photographs by Andrea Barrist Stern.

Chobani has broken ground on a 70,000 - square - foot - facility at its Idaho plant that will house the company's global research and development team as well as new amenities for its 1,000 employees.

We spent a week in NM in the fall and bought heirloom chile seeds from Espanola area and are they ever beautiful plants this spring as we start our garden from seed in the house!

Some gamesome wights will tell you that they have to plant weeds there, they don't grow naturally; that they import Canada thistles; that they have to send beyond seas for a spile to stop a leak in an oil cask; that pieces of wood in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses, to get under the shade in summertime; that one blade of grass makes an oasis, three blades in a day's walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand shoes, something like Laplander snowshoes; that they are so shut up, belted about, every way inclosed, surrounded, and made an utter island of by the ocean, that to their very chairs and tables small clams will sometimes be found adhering, as to the backs of sea turtles.

What a lovely idea — I love flowers in the house I planted a small patch of our garden as a «cutting garden» last year just so I could have flowers all the time — there are still flowers in it now!

A good friend of mine, Katie Joy, a visual artist and birth doula living in Brooklyn, tells Romper that as soon as she moved to the city, procuring house plants was absolutely essential: «I needed the balance with nature... it's my therapy.»

As Entergy Corp. moves to close the FitzPatrick Nuclear Plant in Oswego County, the area's two House members are urging the state to reconvene negotiations to keep the facility open.

As ConAgra Foods prepares to close its Carriage House plants in Fredonia and Dunkirk, Rep. Tom Reed says lawmakers are working hard to ensure other businesses don't do the same.

«So the practice by Tinubu to always want to plant people everywhere may not work every time as it has shown in Ondo and the National Assembly, where his candidates for the positions of Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Senator Ahmed Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila, lost out to Dr. Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara.

WASHINGTON — House Democrats Wednesday cited plant closures from across the country — including the shutdown of the Dresser - Rand plant in Wellsville — as arguments that the Republican tax cut bill passed last year isn't bringing back jobs as the GOP had promised.

Fighting off police from occupied houses, as well as violent protests against nuclear plants led to the development of the Black Bloc tactics.

As an expert he has been appointed on over 400 occasions in a broad variety of cases involving such diverse projects as housing, shipping, IT supply, oil and gas, road rail and air transport, multi - storey buildings, power generation plants, hospitals, commercial and industrial buildings, petro - chemical and other process plantAs an expert he has been appointed on over 400 occasions in a broad variety of cases involving such diverse projects as housing, shipping, IT supply, oil and gas, road rail and air transport, multi - storey buildings, power generation plants, hospitals, commercial and industrial buildings, petro - chemical and other process plantas housing, shipping, IT supply, oil and gas, road rail and air transport, multi - storey buildings, power generation plants, hospitals, commercial and industrial buildings, petro - chemical and other process plants.

State lawmakers seeking to put the brakes on a plan by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to hike electric bills to keep open upstate nuclear power plants have introduced legislation calling for a moratorium on the plan as the Assembly considers a one - house budget bill that would do the same.

As the Green Party candidate, a party founded on environmental issues, Levy says he wants a ban on nuclear power plants in New York and also wants to see affordable housing and other buildings in New York made with eco-friendly and sustainable materials and practices.

Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says as many as 10,000 new jobs will be created by the plant, which will make flat - screen displays in House Speaker Paul Ryan's congressional district.

The book roughly follows a chronological path, starting with such treasures as the world's oldest pot plant — a cycad from an ancient group that outlived the dinosaurs and has been housed at Kew since 1775.

The strategy — widely anticipated but issued 5 months later than the White House had originally planned — also outlines a series of steps and goals for agencies to pursue, such as tackling bee - killing pathogens and mites, reducing pesticide use and reviewing its safety to bees, restoring degraded pollinator habitats, and encouraging the planting of more flowering plants and other pollinator - friendly vegetation.

One big challenge to U.S. efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions comes this week, as a federal circuit court hears arguments over a challenge to the White House's major climate change initiative, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) regulations targeting emissions from power plants.

George Washington Carver The George Washington Carver Museum in Tuskegee, Alabama, houses the agricultural scientist's plant specimens and lab apparatus, as well as paintings, crochet, and other handicrafts he created in his spare time.

By putting dirt from the house floors and rubbish heaps in her flotation tank, Near has found that the residents of Çatalhöyük were energetic collectors of wild plants as well.

-- The Secretary shall establish and provide incentives for developers of housing for which any HUD financial assistance, as determined by the Secretary, is provided for development, maintenance, operation, or other costs, to enter into agreements and partnerships with tree - planting organizations, nurseries, and landscapers to certify that trees, shrubs, grasses, and other plants are planted in the proper manner, are provided adequate maintenance, and survive for at least 3 years after planting or are replaced.

Rhizobia - hosting plants, mostly in the legume family, recruit rhizobia from the soil to infect their roots, forming specialized nodules of root tissue to house the bacteria and provide them with sugars as a food resource.

Grounds Crew The VLA grounds crew does a little bit of everything, from maintaining the walkways for the public, to planting trees, mowing, and many other «as needed» assignments, such as stabilizing the ground around a steel structure that houses the fiber optic connection from the arms of the array to the control building.

There are certain indoor house plants that filter the surrounding air, increase oxygen and act as humidifiers.

Today, I left my house as I sometimes do so the baby can stay in her home environment and play, and planted myself at Starbucks.

Add some epsom salt as part of a regular watering or fertilizing routine for more robust house plants.

As I mention having plants around the house helps (here is a list of the best plants for purifying air), but for those who don't want the upkeep of indoor plants or can't have them due to pets / kids / etc, there are some other natural options.

Michelle Obama planted the garden in 2009, and in addition to providing food for the White House, it also serves as an educational center, inspiring big conversations about health and wellness in the U.S. (Eater)

Putting up a bat house is as simple as a quick construction project or inexpensive purchase, and a few thoughtful plants, and you'll have the winged weasels pollinating, fertilizing, and cutting down on insects in your garden in no time.

Plus, as the Soupergirl website puts it, «She thought about being a farmer but she can't even keep her house plants alive.»

my understanding of regular potatoes any color skin flesh etc. is this... potatoes are on the dirty dozen list... sweet potatoes are on the clean 15... i eat over 50 % of my diet in the form of a few different colors of sweet potatoes... i buy them bulk... peel»em very deeply... at least 1/2 inch all around... i sometimes get them as large as 6 pounds (football sized)... i used to wear out the regular potatoes but after speaking with the safety expert from a huge potato company to find out if the potatoes are grown on soil which had grain crops treated with round - up herbicide filled with atrazine and glyphosate (which most grain crops are... inluding many wheat crops... they get sprayed like 3 days before harvest... then the round - up is in the soil)... problem is... the round - up stays for 7 years... after stayin» off the soil for a couple years... it can have any kind of crop planted on it and get an organic rating... but... whatever was planted on that soil is then full of round - up... so... this crop rotation onto fields which had grain crops sprayed with round - up herbicide etc. is EXTREMELY COMMON IN THE GROWING PRACTICE FOR REGULAR POTATOES... very common practice... so even if you peel»em deeply... they are still soaked with round - up... the glyphosates get in the gut... the aluminum which is all over everything grown above ground and not covered (hot house etc)... gets eaten9ya can't wash it off... unless ya peel everything... but greens etc. ya can not get it out... it gets in the fiber)... then ya eat it... it goes in the gut... mixes with the glyphosate... becomes 10,000 timesmore toxic... inhibits the bodies ability to properly process sulfur into sulfide and sulfate... basically many very smart researchers are sayin'this is the cause of all this asperger's... autism... alzheimer's like symptoms in the elderly... you can only take so much nano... pico... and heavy metal poisoning... the brain starts to act very strangely... so... long story short... i eat lots of sweet pots grown on clean soil... they are non-gmo and basically grown organically... but... the grower doesn't pay for the certification... i make sure to get my omega 3 from fresh ground flax seed in the morning away from my sweet potato consumption... the omega 6 in the sweet pots inhibits the absorption of omega 3 and i only want so much fat daily... i'm on the heart attack proof diet by dr. caldwell b. esselstyn jr....

When it comes to house plants the Peace lilly or Spathiphyllum when in full bloom carries much as much charm as any indoor plant.

House plants are likewise helpful in purifying the air you breathe, as they are natural filters, and can be placed in homes situated in urban settings.