Sentences with phrase «plants and flowers as»

It is 8 storeys high and has native plants and flowers as well as an assortment of Urticaccae — nettles — grown in Japan and India and planted here because the humid microclimate is the perfect spot for them.

[13] She later worked with Jonathan Horowitz on a series of monotypes which develop upon the concepts of plants and flowers as motifs of love and death, resulting in a series of paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures and photographs, as well as a collaborative artists book.

Kelly made drawings and prints throughout his career, using plants and flowers as his primary source of inspiration.

The artist has even collaborated with artist superstar Matthew Barney on a project titled Blood of Two, as well as with Jonathan Horowitz on a series of monotypes which develop upon the concepts of plants and flowers as motifs of love and death.

The palace gardens were famous for their beauty and serenity, being home to many rare plants and flowers as well as birds.

They have an impressive spa and jungle gym, and I really enjoyed walking around their farm with various fruits, vegetables (the dishes are largely farm / sea to table), plants and flowers as well as rear chicken and ostrich.

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Create a mood ideal for showcasing your home such as playing relaxing background music, lighting a fire, adding plants and flowers, maximizing lighting and fine - tuning the temperature

Industrial hemp - simply known as hemp - comes from the cannabis sativa L. plant which contains 0.3 % tetrahyrdocannabinol (THC) or less in the leaves and flower.

This argument, however, falls, because we have shown that although a body, say, a plant, can accomplish what the individual cells in it can not do, e.g., flower and bear fruit, still, the plant needs the ground as its «other.»

In plant taxonomy gynandrous refers to a fusion of male flowers (stamens, actually) on a style (part of the pistil or female reproductive structure) such as in orchids and milkweeds.

It is just as rational to believe tiny invisible dragons fly out of my ass each night to blow the winds accross the waters and makes plants grow and flowers open also keeps the earth spinning, yup, all my dragons fault.

Herbalism is the use of plants (such as leaves, flowers, fruit, seed, stems, wood, bark, roots, rhizomes or other plant parts) to heal and...

The most popular butterfly, attracting plant and shrub is the Buddleja which I completely fell in love with although I have to admit it was really hard to pick a favorite as we were surrounded by some many gorgeous flowers!

Even though they are both in their 80's, they still really enjoy getting outdoors as soon as the soil thaws to plant flowers, vegetables, shrubs, and anything that will produce beautiful blooms and foliage.

Like our, Tepin pepper, this plant is a great plant for container or patio growing as it's beautiful flowers and ornamental fruit add a splash of color to any space.

Now, cannabis, a plant whose flowers can be worth as much as gold, is beginning to emerge from those shadows and venture into the mainstream.

The reference is ambiguous since you can't eat every root and there's more to the plant above the ground than just the stem (ahem ¨ the flower) but that's not the point The idea is to eat as much of the plant as possible.

Among the ancient Mayas, the blossom of the pepino (cucumber), the blossoms of the chile plant, and the flower of an herb we only know as algodon atabacado are all mashed together, combined with cotton - wool, and squeezed into the afflicted ear.

Also, Flowers adds that the production crew, plant manager and accounting staff are equally as qualified and ambitious as the sales team, with all employees paying close attention to detail with a desire to get things done the right way.

The company also has a strong national retail component supplying hobbyists with vegetable and flower seeds as well as a range of pesticides and plant nutrients.

The dill plant is a culinary herb that produces yellow flowers and feathery leaves that are valued for their flavor, as well as their ornamental contribution to gardens.

These tubers grow underground and are related to sunflowers, as the stalk produces a bunch of bright, yellow flowers halfway through the plant's growing season.

Fresh, quality produce from local farmers as well as salsa, honey, local meat, farmers cheese, tamales, baked goods, hand - made soap, live plants, fresh herbs, cut flowers, and more!

As usual I went a little overboard and planted over 25 different fruits, vegetables, herbs, and flowers.

«A traditional meat eater can come in and have amazing dishes in a plant - based way, such as zucchini flowers stuffed with smoked almond curd instead of cheese, and be open minded about it.»

Buckwheat isn't actually a wheat; it's a plant that flowers (see above), withers (below), and produces triangular grain - like seeds, as pictured below.

Picking mature fruits will also increase your yield, as the plant will set more flowers and experience a longer growing season if the conditions are good.

As the plant flowers and sets fruit, there will be pods in all stages of maturity.

Chia seeds are harvested from a flowering plant in the mint family known as Salvia hispanica, which is native to parts of Mexico and Guatemala.

Flowering plants are also important for many beneficial arthropods such as predators and parasitoids37.

And here's another side note: I was also given a flower of Maryam to use during birth — a dry, brittle and grayish plant, which slowly begins to bloom and soften as the laboring mother dilates, after it is placed in water in the birthing roAnd here's another side note: I was also given a flower of Maryam to use during birth — a dry, brittle and grayish plant, which slowly begins to bloom and soften as the laboring mother dilates, after it is placed in water in the birthing roand grayish plant, which slowly begins to bloom and soften as the laboring mother dilates, after it is placed in water in the birthing roand soften as the laboring mother dilates, after it is placed in water in the birthing room.

As I was weeding and getting the dirt under my fingernails and noticing that many of my strawberry plants have flowers on them, and the kids were playing in the dirt beside me, I began to feel alive and good and once again had the desire to garden.

Other earth - friendly ideas include giving out flowering plants for favors, serving locally grown food, sending digital invitations, and wrapping the presents in recyclable or reusable material such as newspaper, cloth diapers, or baby blankets instead of store - bought wrapping paper.

As alternatives to the typical card and brunch, your family might like to light candles to remember absent mothers or plant flowers to honor multiple mothers.

And that spring snow, oh, it melts so quickly, acting as water for the growing plants and flowers of spriAnd that spring snow, oh, it melts so quickly, acting as water for the growing plants and flowers of spriand flowers of spring.

Gardening will also teach them the responsibility necessary to care for plants and patience as they wait for the flowers to bloom or vegetables to produce.

I love the ideas, especially bringing flowers and plants from your yard as decorations and prizes.

Does he love observing flowers and plants as they grow?

The research began a decade ago, when astronauts placed about 2000 seeds from tobacco plants and a flowering plant known as Arabidopsis thaliana on the outside of the International Space Station.

Yet, in this plant (as well as in certain conifers), the researchers found genes similar to those responsible for the formation of flowers, and which are organized according to the same hierarchy (with the activation of one gene activating the next gene, and so on)!

«As phenology is advancing around the globe, there are concerns that plant - pollinator interactions may be disrupted through phenological mismatches, or mismatches in the timing of when flowers bloom and their pollinators emerge, leading to reduced plant reproduction,» says lead author Zak Gezon, who conducted the research as a doctoral student at Dartmouth and who is now a conservation biologist with Disney's Animal ProgramAs phenology is advancing around the globe, there are concerns that plant - pollinator interactions may be disrupted through phenological mismatches, or mismatches in the timing of when flowers bloom and their pollinators emerge, leading to reduced plant reproduction,» says lead author Zak Gezon, who conducted the research as a doctoral student at Dartmouth and who is now a conservation biologist with Disney's Animal Programas a doctoral student at Dartmouth and who is now a conservation biologist with Disney's Animal Programs.

The findings paint a bleak picture for the persistence of native flowering plants in the face of climate change and could serve as a herald for future species losses in mountain ecosystems over the next century.

New University of Colorado Boulder - led research has established a causal link between climate warming and the localized extinction of a common Rocky Mountain flowering plant, a result that could serve as a herald of future population declines.

Some may still see it as a Cinderella science, but botany flowers magnificently in Plants: Roots to riches and the accompanying 25 - part BBC Radio 4 series

Instead of nectar, researchers suggest the appendage likely helped the winged insects avoid becoming dehydrated in the hot and arid climate of the time by getting sustenance from another source: sweet secretions beaded up into droplets on seed - bearing — as opposed to flowering — plants.

Givnish and his colleagues found that initially, orchids speciated no more rapidly than their closest relatives, and at a slow rate relative to flowering plants as a whole.

A new study indicates that pea plants with some specific traits — such as longer flowering time and higher pod numbers — may be more resistant to heat stress.

Project BudBurst launched in 2007 as a national field campaign designed to engage the public in the observation and collection of important ecological data based on the timing of leafing, flowering and fruiting of plants (aka plant phenophases).

In a recent review of the literature, Winfree and her colleagues concluded that land - use changes such as urbanization and deforestation can affect native pollinators differently, depending on whether they increase or reduce the numbers and diversity of flowering plants.

The first is changes to the environment that significantly alter habitat, in effect» «altering the rules of the game,»» as Arens puts it, so that physical characteristics and behavior that once proved adaptive for certain organisms — dinosaurs, for instance, that relied on flowering plants for food — no longer work as well.