Sentences with phrase «of a tulip plant»

That's a reference to the arrival and boom of the tulip plant in 17th - century Europe.

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Your flower story reminded me of when my 1st child was 3, she came to me, proudly holding a huge boquet of freshly picked tulips — every single one that I had carefully planted the previous fall, all of them green & barely showing a bulb!

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's - Eye View of the World, Michael Pollan (Random House) A gardener with a literary bent explores how four plants — the tulip, the apple, the potato, and marijuana — coevolved with humans.

Plants either dropped their leaves seasonally, shutting down the pathways that would normally carry water between roots and leaves; developed thinner water - conducting pathways, allowing them to keep their leaves while reducing the risk of air bubbles developing during freezing and thawing; or avoided the cold seasons altogether as herbs, losing aboveground stems and leaves and retreating as seeds, or storing organs underground, such as tulips or potatoes.

In the Southeast, tulip poplars erupt in orange and yellow when rains are normal, but in drought «the leaves kind of brown up and turn black and just fall off,» Howard Neufeld, a plant physiologist at Appalachian State University in North Carolina, said.

It seriously looks like tons and tons of M&M's from far away, until you drive closer and realize that they're perfectly planted tulips!

I also see yellow for the daffodils that bloom in my garden, and red for all the tulips I planted in front of my house.

Look at all these images of iconic Washington state places, animals, and plants; Mount Baker, eagles, tulips, Walla Walla sweet onions, moose, Mount Rainier, and loads more.

Every May, 500,000 people make the drive to this eight - day celebration, which began in 1929 with a suggestion by a local schoolteacher to beautify this town on the shore of Lake Michigan by planting tulips in honor of the original Dutch settlers.

The reader is utterly transported, hearing the cacophony of the Hong Kong harbor, smelling the dusty, shabby rooms of Filth's first chambers in London's Temple Bar, and feeling the rich soil crumbling beneath Betty's fingers when she plants tulip bulbs in her British garden.

Pollan intertwines history, anecdote, and epiphany in this paradigm - altering view of the mutually beneficial relationships between humans and four plants that have thrived under cultivation and satisfied specific desires: apples and sweetness, tulips and beauty, marijuana and intoxication, potatoes and control.

Flowers such as azalea, oleander, tulips, and several varieties of lilies can be poisonous, while other plants like sago palm, castor, yew, or ivy can be toxic as well.

The list includes the following plants: azalea / rhododendron (all parts), clematis (stems and leaves), daffodil, narcissus, tulip (bulbs), lily of the valley (leaves and flowers), black - eyed Susan, daylily, iris, foxglove, ferns, morning glory, tomato (vines), bleeding heart, yew (all parts) and pokeweed (a common weed).

Some of the more popular varieties that may be found around Valentine's Day are: Baby's Breath, Chrysanthemums, Daffodils, various Lilies, Ferns, Hyacinth, Hydrangea, Impatiens, Lily - of - the - Valley, Rubber plants, and Tulips.

The list of poisonous plants is long and includes everything from the amaryllis to the peace lily to the tulip.

Lilies, tulips, foxglove, and philodendron are among hundreds of plants that are known to be poisonous to cats.

A partial list of these plants includes: amaryllis, azaleas and rhododendrons, chrysanthemum, cyclamen, kalanchoe, lilies, oleander, peace lily, pothos, Sago palm, tulip and narcissus bulbs, and yew.

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.

The gardens only open in the spring displaying a powerful burst of colour and providing an incredible seasonal display of tulips, crocuses, daffodils and other flowering plants.

I recently spent a lovely afternoon in our Potting Shed chatting with Wave Hill's gardeners about their favorite bulb varieties, and have made a selection that our gardeners will be planting at Wave Hill this spring — including glory of the snow (Chionodoxa sardensis) that graces our gardens with a glorious carpet of blue — Narcissii, Crocus, Muscari and some unusual specialty tulip varieties that you will see featured in our Flower Garden and Pergola plantings.

Although his photography included a wide range of acclaimed still lifes of plants - featuring tulips, orchids, poppies, irises, and lilies, including his celebrated composition Calla Lily (1986, silver print, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York)- he is best known for his controversial male nudes and other photos from the New York «leather scene».

Every year The Fund for Park Avenue plants on the malls begonias in the spring and tulips in the fall, and organizes art installations, that include the work of artists of such repute and importance as Jean Dubuffet, Robert Indiana, Yosimoto Nara, Fernando Botero, and Deborah Butterfield, among others.

The bounty of tulips that the Istanbul municipality plants in the city's public squares, parks, and gardens each April to celebrate the coming of spring shows how radically — and attractively — a bit of nature can transform urban space.

There are a few plants that time some part of their life cycle on a required cold period, such as tulip bulbs, and some plants like tomatoes can have trouble setting fruit during very hot days, but by and large, warmer is far better.

Here are some photos of my recently planted 450 tulip bulbs in bloom!

When I bought my last bunch of tulips, the cashier ran them through the till and remarked, «Two years ago, I planted three hundred bulbs in my yard.

20 little things... making soups baking bread to eat with the soup wearing my long turtle neck flannel dress at night and in the early morning too season tickets for the theater working on a special xmas present for my children the turning of autumn leaves simmering dinner in the slow cooker going back to art classes lighting candles in the morning and the evening too knitting soft soft scarves wearing them making quince jelly watching videos on rainy weekends making scorched corn pudding for Thanksgiving cutting and drying hydrangeas clearing the garden for winter planting tulips wearing thick socks on cold nights eating the jam I made in summer

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.

Even the gorgeous pop of red in the tulips (a surprise from my hubby this week) mixed with the evergreen plants seem to be inspired by the ever - evolving fall colors, just like the changing leaves and trees outside our windows.

I try to bring freshness to gloomy days with real paperwhites and will soon plant «spring bulbs» of hiacynths and tulips to slowly morph into spring decor — more birds, nests, etc..!

I was stunned, shocked, and beyond thrilled the next spring when tulips, hydrangeas, roses, peonies, brown - eyed susans, hostas, and tons of other plants I don't know sprung up out of nowhere!

So as much as I'd love to share tulips and daffodils planted and blooming on my front porch, the realities of a cold, Canadian winter just won't allow for that.

Tulips are such a symbol of Spring and these are especially great as they are potted plants so I can actually plant them outside once Easter is over.

The natural wood, the air plants, the succulents and of course the tulips, it's such a pretty farmhouse style garden theme.

Living in Minnesota, I like to have new tulip bulbs planted by the end of October.