Sentences with phrase «growing willow»

This is a single - pass, cut - and - chip harvester reaping fast - growing willow for a carbon - neutral biomass plant, part of Germany's Energiewende or «energy turnaround.»

Three German architects created this bird - watching station in Bavaria using fast - growing willow trees as the sole supports.

In these experiments, the researchers manipulated three variables while growing the willow oaks: temperature, water and the presence of scale insects.

Not exact matches

Once buttoned and bundled, they scattered toward favorite spaces: a crab apple tree made for climbing, a cluster of bushes forming a secret nook under a willow tree, a sandbox growing muddier by the minute....

Many commercially grown trees — fruit trees as well as timber trees such as pine, poplar, and willow — can be maintained as tissue cultures, transferred to soil, and then grown into whole plantations.

The vast majority was from what Zayed calls «bee - friendly» flowers — like goldenrod, willow and clover — that often grow on the perimeters of crop fields.

Using advanced techniques for analyzing the simultaneous expression of genes from multiple organisms in an ecosystem, the scientists examined the roots of willows grown on a polluted site in suburban Montreal.

At Argonne it will give way, over the next 20 to 30 years, to ecological restoration, as the pollutants are removed and the worker trees replaced by bur oaks and other hardwoods native to the Great Lakes region — trees that grow slowly and draw only a fraction of the water taken up by the hasty, thirsty poplars and willows.

2000 While growing up in Scottsdale, Arizona, Emma Stone lands her first role in a theater production of «The Wind in the Willows» at 12 years old.

The front garden grows wild, the long grasses scattered with cowslips, reaching toward the low - hanging leaves of the willow trees.

The creek dividing the meadow meandered and, at its deepest bend, was lined with small weeping willows that grew as we grew and bent their long, willowy, tearful branches down over the water.

Anne Martin of Richmond - based House Rabbit Society, an adoption and education society, said willow and wicker toys are ideal because «rabbits» teeth are always growing and they need to wear them down.»

Willows (Salix lasiolepis) grow in riparian areas and use both wind and water as means of seed dispersal.

@Dngr Rngr: During our mid-August trip to the Katmai Preserve, when the bears vanished, as they commonly did, it happened in or near thick communities of alder and willow, which grow thick on both banks of Moraine and Funnel Creeks.

Willows, though, are not so particular; they'll grow in the open and adopt a westward leaning character from the incessant east wind.

Part of the future development will be investigating potential improvement to the material perhaps including the growing of custom shaped poles, or limiting the branching on sections of the pole (as is done with willow for cricket bats) provided such development is compatible with the objectives above.»

While weeping willows will grow especially well near water, there are a variety of hybrids available that can be better suited to drier conditions.

Low tundra shrubs, many of which are willow and alder species, have rapidly grown into small trees over the last 50 years, according to the study, led by scientists from the Biodiversity Institute at the University of Oxford and the Arctic Center of the University of Lapland.

The first harvest of 34 acres of fast - growing shrub willow from a Penn State demonstration field this winter is a milestone in developing a sustainable biomass supply for renewable energy and bio-based economic development,...

Wood, Wood Waste, Other Solid Waste: Covers purpose - grown energy crops (poplar, willow etc.), a multitude of woody materials generated by an industrial process (wood / paper industry in particular) or provided directly by forestry and agriculture as well as wastes such as straw, rice husks, crushed grape dregs etc..

Using old spy satellite data from the 1960s, and comparing it to more recent imagery, he and his graduate students and colleagues have determined that tall shrubs, such as alder, willow, birch and dwarf pine, have expanded their range and grown taller, indicating that the tundra is undergoing change, likely as a result of increasing temperatures and loss of permafrost.

We didn't have much money when I was growing up and my sister and I created our own playhouse inside a circle of willow trees.

Balls of willow sit amongst the plants as supports, to support the herbs and flowers as they grow.