Sentences with phrase «native plant like»

That cellulose could come from a native plant like switchgrass, or even from municipal waste.

Along his own fence lines, in areas that aren't farmed, he favors native plants like coyote bush.

Greens gaze in rapture at the trees but ignore the valuable grasses beneath their feet — native plants like Mitchell Grass and Kangaroo Grass and cultivated grasses like wheat, barley, oats, sorghum and sugar cane.

Native plants like pagoda dogwood (Cornus alternifolia) were a natural choice and are also low maintenance.

Not exact matches

I like to make rosehip tea before bed... planted wild rose bushes (rosa canina) from seeds I brought from my native eastern Europe (Slovakia).

Another approach is to encourage managers of semiartificial environments like golf courses to surround the greens with the types of plants, like sunflowers, lupines, and black - eyed susans, that attract native pollinators.

Jeff Whitworth, associate professor of entomology, says endangered bee populations can be revived through simple practices like growing native plants.

Xi's work also shows that even the genes that Rafflesia plants inherited from their own ancestors have appropriated the characteristics of the vines» genes; up to 30 percent of the corpse flowers» native genes code for proteins (the process that helps to determine physical traits) in a way that's more like the vines» than like its fellow Malpighiales».

Mexico is in the middle - ground due to the continued popularity in local diets of crops like maize and beans, two plants native to the region, alongside sugarcane (with origins in Southeast and South Asia) and wheat.

Conover hopes that instead of using non-native invasive landscape plants like Chinese silvergrass, homeowners and horticulturists will use one of this area's beautiful native tall grasses such as prairie dropseed, little bluestem, big bluestem, switch grass or Indian grass because, «restoring the flora to its native species will enhance the biodiversity of native plants and the native animals, including butterflies that depend on them.»

Bodies are buried in a forest and planted over with endangered native species like crested coralroot orchids.

First, they targeted alien weeds like marsh grass and water hyacinth that blanketed the wetlands and squeezed out native aquatic plants.

Like many other plants and animals, usually foreign in origin, that mature fast, multiply prolifically, spread like wildfire, and often crowd out native species, loosestrife has been swept into the category of invasiLike many other plants and animals, usually foreign in origin, that mature fast, multiply prolifically, spread like wildfire, and often crowd out native species, loosestrife has been swept into the category of invasilike wildfire, and often crowd out native species, loosestrife has been swept into the category of invasives.

• This is Monotropa uniflora, commonly known as ghost pipe, corpse plant or Indian pipe, presumably because the seed capsules look like a Native American pipe.

For those who like to wildcraft herbs themselves, check with herbalists or experts in your area to see if Yarrow is a native plant.

While direct light can burn the leaves of most plants, desert natives like cacti can thrive in bright, direct light conditions.

Some people can't metabolize plant omega 3 and 6 fats, like many people with northern European or Native American heritage, elderly, infants, and much more.

Sourced from the agave plant growing in Mexico, which has been used by Native Americans for medicinal purposes for hundreds of years, like for cleaning wounds.

She especially loves planting natives — like the Dudleya farinosa «live - forever» succulent — with her Thursday San Francisco Park Stewardship team.

Her zoo, nestled amongst a beautiful garden of native plants, is made up of a collection of exotic birds, butterflies, and other wildlife like civets, a monitor lizard, a sugar glider and a surprisingly tame bat.

You'll do things like remove invasive plants, collect seeds, and help count native animal populations.

«They don't like to get their feet wet,» explains Annette Russell, the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy staffer who manages the Presidio nursery, which grows native plants for restoration projects in the park.

Most of the year, we like to feature soft, picture - perfect native plants that beckon you to frolic in the parklands.

Whether a novice or an expert hiker, you'll be rewarded on Maui's trails with wonderful surprises like hidden waterfalls, lush forests, rare plants, native birds, and jaw - dropping views.

Signature treatments, like the one I had, make use of Mexico's native Blue Agave plant and its ancestral healing benefits.

Family Mimosaceae Native to Central America the sensitive plant has finely divided feather - like leaves and pink to purplish flower pompoms.

A unique aspect of their pottery is the focus on the native environment... the plants, geology, and wildlife that are reflected in the themes and materials used in their work, like the heron urns, leaf imprint pots and landscape triptychs.

Over four hours, enthusiastic volunteers planted 5,000 sapling trees in 10 kinds of native hardwoods like Pilon, Guapinol and Mountain Almond that are proven to be good for this climate and region of Costa Rica.

Eleuthera is a nature - lover's paradise, offering many natural adventures and fascinating sites to explore: the one - of - a-kind Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve, home to a large variety of native flora and fauna; world - renowned Ocean Hole blue hole, supposedly explored by Jacques Cousteau and rumored to have healing powers; the famous Glass Window Bridge, narrowest point on the island where the Atlantic Ocean separates the calm Exuma Sound by 30 feet; Boiling Hole, Ocean Hole and Queen's Bath; and interesting caves like Preacher's Cave, Hatchet Bay Cave and Boiling HoleNative Plant Preserve, home to a large variety of native flora and fauna; world - renowned Ocean Hole blue hole, supposedly explored by Jacques Cousteau and rumored to have healing powers; the famous Glass Window Bridge, narrowest point on the island where the Atlantic Ocean separates the calm Exuma Sound by 30 feet; Boiling Hole, Ocean Hole and Queen's Bath; and interesting caves like Preacher's Cave, Hatchet Bay Cave and Boiling Holenative flora and fauna; world - renowned Ocean Hole blue hole, supposedly explored by Jacques Cousteau and rumored to have healing powers; the famous Glass Window Bridge, narrowest point on the island where the Atlantic Ocean separates the calm Exuma Sound by 30 feet; Boiling Hole, Ocean Hole and Queen's Bath; and interesting caves like Preacher's Cave, Hatchet Bay Cave and Boiling Hole Cave.

Chaya is a spinach - like plant with large leaves that resemble maple leaves and it is native to the Yucatan Peninsula.

Guests can partake in activities like a boat expedition up the Monkey River in search of native primates with one of the loudest animal calls in the world or hike through the lush beauty of the vast Cockscomb Basin Nature Reserve, home to hundreds of flowering plants, colorful birds, and all five of Central America's last remaining big cat species.

About the Artist A California native, Pae White is a multimedia artist known for reinterpreting familiar encounters and ordinary items — like animals, books, advertisements, shopping bags, and plants — and revealing what she calls the «artfulness» of the natural and the everyday.

To discourage weeds and encourage native plants we use methods like manual weeding, mechanical mowing, and the judicious application of herbicides.

Which results in algae blooms that «can block out sunlight, eat up all the water's oxygen, and suffocate native aquatic plants, like eelgrass,» writes Funes.

The project, founded two years ago by young local designer Melissa Jimenez, production technician Karla Aguilar and manager Juan Jose Bolaños, also helps communities, artists and artisans develop their crafts, supports responsible manufacturers, and develops some products like a bamboo textiles line and a collection of preserved native plants for decoration.

In 2014, we continued support of forest restoration of degraded parcels of vital bird habitat at Tapichalaca Reserve in Ecuador, with 20,000 native trees planted on 61 acres to benefit resident birds like Jocotoco Antpitta and migrants including Swainson's Thrush.

«Native plants are cheaper to grow, they are happier in our local environment, they've evolved over thousands of years to like our bitter clay soil and our ridiculously hot summers,» said Kim Reiss, a horticulturist at Sugar Creek Gardens in Kirkwood.

But pollution also covers hundreds of chemicals which are fine or even beneficial at low levels but which if released in large quantities or in problematic circumstances cause «harm» — like phosphorus (grows your veges but also leads to toxic cyanobacterial blooms which kill cattle), nitrogen (grows crops kills many native species of plants and promotes weed growth costing farmers), copper (used as an oxygen carrier by gastropods but in high concentrations kills the life in sediments which feed fish), hormones like oestrogen (essential for regulating bodies but in high concentrations confuse reproductive cycles especially with marine life) or maybe molasses from a sugar mill (good for rum but when dumped into east coast estuaries used to cause oxygen sag in estuaries leading to massive fish kills).

In 2014, we continued to support habitat restoration at Tapichalaca, with 20,000 native trees planted on 61 acres to benefit resident birds like the antpitta and migrants including Swainson's Thrush.

These events are often paired with conservation - oriented volunteer opportunities like beach cleanups, creek restoration, and planting native plants.

In Australia, a number of introduced plant species have adapted to become more like natives, a new study reveals.

When he is at home, he likes to spend time in his garden growing vegetables and native California plants.

There is a plant native to Australia known as «Gympie Gympie» that is like a supercharged version of poison ivy; the compounds secreted by the leaves of the plant are so incredibly painful that people describe the effects, which linger for weeks after exposure, as like a combination of being doused in hot acid and electrocuted at the same time.

Native to hot, desert - like environments, the tiny pink petals of this plant's flowers bring a burst of colour to sunny rooms.

• Native grasses like little bluestem and prairie dropseed Get ready to save money on plants!