Sentences with phrase «plant tulips»

In one example PT for fourth grade, students are asked to help plant tulips at their school.

What a wonderful way to plant the tulips in moss.

You can be as unconventional as you want as a writer, your sentences can curl around the block and back again, picking up trash and planting tulips along the way, but probably nobody will meet them back at your front door offering to publish or pay for them if they aren't good.

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!

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.

It's where they lovingly plant their tulip bulbs, water their organic garlic and prune their hardy roses.

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

I planted some tulips and crocus to get a little spring therapy I live in mn - need I say more.

Not exact matches

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

The tulip bulb trade started inadvertently when a botanist brought tulip bulbs from Constantinople and planted them for his own scientific research.

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!

After tulips bloomed this year for the first time in the Great Garden at Stockton Drive and Webster Avenue, Lincoln Park Conservatory horticulturist Steve Meyer focused on color and tropical plants for summer.

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.

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.

Tulips are my favorite flower and the squirrels have dug out almost every bulb I planted.

For example, I love real tulips and plants, but not when my fern sheds on a freshly swept floor.

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.

This game uses pictures for 16 plant - related vocabulary words: flower, leaf, bud, stem, thorn, seed, plant, rose, tulip, tree, cactus, palm tree, trunk, roots, branch, bark.

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.

Poisonous plants: Common plants like tulips, azaleas, and chrysanthemums can make your cat drool, as well as make her sick, so don't let your feline friend eat them.

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.

If you have household plants, be aware that some are poisonous to cats, including mistletoe, lilies, aloe, azaleas, marijuana, tulips, rhododendron, mums and poinsettia.

Everyone loves the beauty that flowers and plants add to the landscape, but certain varieties — including tulips, lilies, and azaleas — are toxic to our furry friends.

Some plants that are poisonous include amaryllis, English ivy, narcissus, dieffenbachia, mistletoe, poinsettia, holly, philodendron, azalea, rhododendron, daffodil daphne, foxglove, bleeding heart, potato, iris, ivy, oleander, rubber plant, tobacco, tulip, clematis, morning glory, and weeping fig.

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 indoor and outdoor plants that are poisonous to cats include amaryllis, English Ivy, narcissus, dieffenbachia (dumb cane), mistletoe, poinsettia, holly, philodendron, azalea, rhododendron, daffodil, daphne, foxglove, bleeding heart, potato, iris, ivy, oleander, rubber plant, tobacco, tulip, clematis, morning glory, and weeping fig.

Other poisonous plants are sago palms, tulip bulbs, English ivy, Peace lily, yew, oleander and azaleas.

These include herbicides, plants (hydrangea, tulips, azaleas, lilies), insecticides, mushrooms, fertilizers and cocoa mulch.

Many common plants and flowers are extremely hazardous to cats, including several which are common in store - bought arrangements such as tulips, chrysanthemums and lilies.

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.

Some common plants that are poisonous to cats include lilies, tulips, English ivy, oleander and azaleas.

Even some plants that are normally considered harmless are toxic, for instance aloe vera or 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.

It's no surprise, as over 7 million tulip bulbs are planted in Amsterdam every single year.

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.

Filed Under: 5 - 8, Mother's Day, Plants, Spring, Summer, Under 5 Tagged With: flower, Plant A Flower Day, spring, summer, tulip

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.

And I've also been carrying all the large planters back and forth between the garage / greenhouse (too dark for plants just ready to burst leaf buds or sprout anew from the root) and outside (occasionally way too cold at night for these young leaves / sprouts), and throwing bubblewrap covers over strawberry beds and tulips every other week.

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.

Tulips aren't as ephemeral and at least you can plant a nice garden if nobody wants to buy them.

They know which plants wildlife crave — for example, deer love hostas and squirrels feast on tulips, says Messervy.