Sentences with phrase «of early flowers»

Along with the change of seasons from winter to spring comes the anticipation of new growth — it may be seen in the budding of leaves or blooming of early flowers.

The number of flowers produced is very large compared to those which actually set fruit, and a larger percentage of the early flowers set fruit than the later flowers.

They then matched this data with molecular studies of evolutionary relationships, and used statistical modelling to infer the features of the earliest flower.

Not exact matches

«The energy market is changing more rapidly than we could have imagined, and it's changing because the costs of competitive fuels are coming down,» says Simon Flowers, chief analyst at Wood Mackenzie, who predicts global demand for gasoline and diesel fuel will peak as early as a decade from now and «certainly» by 2030.

Dennis Mortensen, the CEO of the company that created Amy Ingram, x.ai, told me earlier this month that some people have been so convinced she is human, they've even sent her flowers, whiskey, and chocolates.

Third and fourth reads of the text have proven to be useful in understanding the «downfall» of the early church; roots of error and departure from NT expectations for a local assembly that have bloomed into flowers with an unpleasant aroma that must be a stench in the nostrils of God.

You knew it would happen eventually, just as the radical left extremism of the very late 60s and early 70s was too much even for most of the flower children.

At first sight, beings and their destinies might seem to us to be scattered haphazard or at least in an arbitrary fashion over the face of the earth; we could very easily suppose that each of us might equally well have been born earlier or later, at this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardener.

I stood in front of the too - early flower display and called my husband over, «Look, pansies,» I said because purple pansies with gold hearts are my Granny's favourite flower, they're her icon, and we were driving to her.

From carefully chosen prayer books and collecting flowers to put in front of statues, to trips to Aylesford Priory and quiet early morning Masses on holiday, the love of God was woven into the fabric of their everyday lives.

The early days of April in British Columbia are filled with flowers and beauty, green growth and warm days.

When he died he weighed sixty pounds, the paper says, and I go out of my way to drive by the address where his brother locked him in the closet, wondering at the blue door, the flower boxes, wondering where the fury started, how early and how hidden the first bruise awaking like a bat, dark wings....

Aging cream - colored bungalows, their arched verandas burdened with vines, were surrounded by a geometry of flower gardens and thick trees; early missionaries must have found the only eucalyptus grove in Jullundur.

The first flowering of this liberty was early Byzantine.

We must not suppose, even at this early and half - passive stage of our hominization, that the partly enforced flowering of thought imposed on us by planetary pressure represents a force of enslavement of which we are the victims: we must recognize it as a force of liberation.

As Joan Didion described, Haight - Asbury's overall tone became dominated fairly early on by dealers, and by the sexual exploitation of young flower - child runaways.

It was one of the earliest triumphs of «the weaker brethren,» those innocent sheep who by mere volume of imbecility have trampled over many delicate and attractive flowers in Christendom.

Such diagnostic thinking was spurred, early in this century, when paresis (or general paralysis, as it was called) was found to be a late - flowering — usually after ten years or so — result of syphilitic infection.

«38 By the 1760s, however, this ethical unity no longer obtained because Puritan theology itself contained the seeds of pluralism; the Great Awakening was but the early eighteenth - century flowering of those seeds, leading to religious diversity in New England.

As early as the mid-third century Origen of Alexandria [9] had urged that the actions enjoined by scripture constitute a «practice» that begins a spiritual journey and comprises the Christian life of most people in time; it flowers into pure contemplation in the afterlife as the ultimate and certain reward of faithful practice.

Metal halide lamps have a spectrum like the bright midday sun, while the high - pressure sodium has the spectrum of the early morning or late afternoon sun, which promotes flowering, according to Cap Farmer.

Not a great start to the wildfire season, but I will admit to enjoying the early show of color from spring flowers.

Those flowers manage to hang on through the ups and downs of early spring before they fall off, covering the sidewalk and making way for lush green leaves to take their place.

You talk about sun flower and pumpkin seeds as good sources of zinc but earlier you mentioned how phytic acid limits the absorption of zinc.

Earlier this year Helen launched her collection of gorgeous paper flowers and everlasting paper wedding bouquets.

Present from the early days of famed Parisian House Chloé, flowers have always left their mark at the very heart... Read More

I've decided that being barefoot in the garden early in the morning, still in my pajamas, gathering flowers to bring inside might just be one of my favorite things in this life.

I always love a good bundle of fresh flowers on a table, especially during these early days of spring when the snow is still thick on the ground outside.

Condi was supported by others earlier as being a shock and awe VP choice.It won't happen.She has expressed no interest in being a public candidate, and likely would be very bad at it.In many ways, she is a delicate flower; and would not easily survive in the political garden of vipers.And what would she add to the GOP ticket?A slight tick up for black voters?

The First Temperatures The earliest temperature measurements by Derham and others amounted to a sort of religious inquiry: They documented not only the weather, but also the body sizes of gnats and wasps and the dates on which snowdrop flowers bloomed and thrushes began to sing each spring.

«Our results suggest, however, that climate change may constrain reproduction of early - flowering plants mostly through the direct impacts of extreme environmental conditions rather than disrupted plant - pollinator interactions.»

He has discovered the world's oldest - known bee and mushroom, the earliest evidence of flowering plant sex and, most recently, a fossilized ancestor of the bacterium that causes Lyme disease.

Pollens, released into the air by flowering plants, trees, and grasses, appear earlier and for a longer period of time under warmer conditions?.

Thus, plants face trade - offs with advanced flowering time: while early - flowering plants can reap the benefits of enhanced pollination, they do so at the cost of increased susceptibility to frost damage that can overwhelm any benefit of flowering early.

An uninterrupted sequence of fossilized pollen from flowers begins in the Early Cretaceous, approximately 140 million years ago, and it is generally assumed that flowering plants first evolved around that time.

When the weather - based model developed at Rothamsted Research was used to predict how climate change may affect the wheat crops, it was predicted that wheat flowering dates will generally be earlier and the incidence of the ear blight disease on the wheat crops will substantially increase.

Peter Hochuli and Susanne Feist - Burkhardt from Paleontological Institute and Museum, University of Zürich, studied two drilling cores from Weiach and Leuggern, northern Switzerland, and found pollen grains that resemble fossil pollen from the earliest known flowering plants.

The researchers also reconstructed what flowers looked like at all the key divergences in the flowering plant evolutionary tree, including the early evolution of monocots (e.g., orchids, lilies, and grasses) and eudicots (e.g., poppies, roses, and sunflowers), the two largest groups of flowering plants.

«This is the first time that we have a clear vision for the early evolution of flowers across all angiosperms.»

He was there on the chilly North Slope at the top of the continent to study moss campion, a low, flat plant that explodes with pink flowers in early summer.

There are countless examples of how global warming is affecting life, from plants flowering earlier in spring, to species spreading to areas that were once too cold for them to survive, to birds becoming smaller.

The previous record - holder for earliest moth - butterfly fossils came from about 130 million years ago, a bit after a major expansion of flowering plants.

Although there was a general trend toward earlier flowering dates and a longer growing season, individual species» responses were distinct, and changes within a species in first, peak, and last flowering dates shifted independently of one other.

The Raqefet cave remains are the earliest example found of graves lined with green and flowering plants.

Cornell's plant experts estimate that Carolus could flower in early to mid-August, but there is no prior data with which to predict how it will acclimate to conditions and variables such as rain, changing light, and the risk of severe weather that could disrupt growth or even cause the plant to not fully develop.

«Earliest evidence of using flower beds for burial found in Raqefet Cave in Mt. Carmel.»

The earliest evidence of using flower beds for burial, dating back to 13,700 years ago, was discovered in Raqefet Cave in Mt. Carmel (northern Israel), during excavations led by the University of Haifa.

The highest number of pesticides accumulated in the colonies early on, shortly after beekeepers placed colonies into early season flowering crops like apples and blueberries.

While the majority of angiosperm species disperse their pollen in this early, bicellular, stage of sexual maturity, about 30 % of flowering plants disperse their pollen in a more mature fertile stage, consisting of three cells (a body and two sperm cells).

The study focused on the removal of the flowers of the invasive shrub Prosopis juliflora, which is native to Central and South America but was introduced to new areas in the late 1970's and early 1980's as an attempt to reverse deforestation.