Sentences with phrase «shrubs around»

If we were staying here we would install window boxes for flowers and plant more flowers and shrubs around the cottage.

Similarly, plant evergreen shrubs around your home's foundation to add year - round insulation.

The property boasts a tranquil bush setting with some roses and array of flowers and shrubs around the homestead itself.

Mature plants and shrubs around the terrace give privacy and seclusion.

For example, students can plant shrubs around streams to make the habitat productive for salmon and leave it at that.

Not exact matches

It's native to the Mediterranean, and being an evergreen shrub, the bitter needle - like leaves are available fresh all year around.

Like trees at lower latitudes, shrubs in the tundra form a concentric ring around their stem each growing season.

Okin is now studying how winds scour nutrients from grassy areas and deposit them around shrubs, gradually killing off the grass and changing the desert from grassland to shrubland.

Cotton is a soft fiber that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant (Gossypium spp.), a shrub native to the tropical and subtropical regions of Africa and the Americas.

It was mid-April as I drove along the rural road that runs through the Leopold Memorial Reserve, noting small herds of deer standing around with their heads down, eating shrubs.

To see whether adding additional bird habitat in the form of trees and shrubs (background, above) might make a difference, biologists created a series of computer simulations of the ecosystem in and around a coffee farm.

For their experiments, the researchers used twigs around 30 centimeters long from 36 different trees and shrubs, which they exposed to different temperature and light conditions in climate chambers.

Fukano found that tendrils of Cayratia japonica only stayed wrapped around other plants if they were non-vine species like shrubs.

The study, involving hundreds of people, found benefits for mental health of being able to see birds, shrubs and trees around the home, whether people lived in urban or more leafy suburban neighbourhoods.

This small shrub originated in eastern North America - specifically Canada and the Northeast coast of the U.S. - and today, it is commonly cultivated in Europe and in temperate climates around the world.

Flowers Mats Aunt pulled together beautiful arrangements and bouquets based around peach avalanche roses and white peonies with grey tones using dusty miller shrubs and eucalyptus

Your school playground should have hard surface areas for ball games, hopscotch and the like, rebound walls; grassed areas for ball games, running around and doing cartwheels; sandplay areas; gardens, shrubs and trees, where younger students might hide or make cubbies; slides, horizontal and vertical ladders; climbing frames; and tables and seats.

There are BALI Registered contractors around the country, for example, that can provide the full range of services, from sports pitch maintenance, verti - draining, tree surgery, gritting and snow clearance, gutter clearance, shrub bed maintenance, grass cutting, playground inspection and maintenance, and the plethora of activities that estate bursars must deal with throughout the course of the year.

School grounds should be inspected for potential hazards such as: • Verandah poles outside doorways, in thoroughfares or in situations where students are unlikely to see them, especially while running; • Steps and changes in level which are poorly proportioned, difficult to see or lack handrails; • Fencing, gates and railings which students climb and which have structural problems, sharp protrusions, splinters or other hazards; • Trip hazards at ground level — protruding drainage pit covers, irregular paving, cracks or tree roots in thoroughfares, broken off post or other remnants of old structures; • Loose gravely surfaces on slopes and where students run; • Slippery patches which may stay damp in winter; • Rocks which students can fall onto or throw around; • Embankments which students can slip down or which have protruding sharp objects; • Blind corners in busy areas; taps and hoses which are positioned where students play or walk; window glass at low levels through which students could fall; • Holes, cracks or exposed irrigation fixtures in ovals; • Trees or shrubs with poisonous parts, sharp spikes or thorns or branches at eye level; • Splinters and deteriorating timbers in seats, retaining edges and other wooden constructions; • sSeds or other areas with hazardous chemicals or machinery to which students have access; rubbish skips which students can climb into or around, or which place students at risk when trucks enter the school; • Areas within the site used for car parking when students are present; and, • Sporting equipment such as goal posts or basketball rings which have structural or other design or maintenance problems.

• Trim trees and shrubs near doors and windows, and think carefully before installing a high, wooden fence around your back yard.

Outdoor cats lie around in the pesticides that we spray on our lawns and shrubs.

Your pooch's natural curiosity can lead to some minor eye injuries, such as while scratching around in shrubs or brush or in the course of greeting a cat.

The granules should be applied from curb to curb and fence to fence especially on any moist or shaded area such as under shrubs and around the doghouse.

I mostly walk them around our neighborhood where the lawns and shrubs are well kept — not prime tick habitat.

Stay on top of your yard care; cut high weeds and keep shrubs and vines around your house well maintained.

Wrap - around decks offer expansive views of the dramatic setting — Sierra peaks to the west, shrub - dotted desert to the east and views of the lake and its tiny Wizard Island, an important nesting site for Western gulls and other sea birds.

Created in 1612 around the palace built by Marie de Medici, this graceful garden on the Left Bank is a delightful spot to relax and wander among its many statues, trees, shrubs, flower beds, and the beautiful Medici Fountain, dating from 1630.

Planted with flowering shrubs, trees and tall bamboo, the garden offers plenty of space for kids to run around, as well as a wide flat lawn ideal for weddings and events.

Once aloft, an undulating nature trail wraps around a sapphire glacier cirque, framed in low - slung alpine shrubs and ground hugging white flowers.

The area immediately around the house and pool is a well maintained garden with lawn and Mediterranean shrubs.

As well as six hundred trees and shrubs planted around the park there are already 30 lawn drive through and powered sites.

The garden is landscaped around the villa with mediterranean shrubs and trees and the property offers one car port area plus street parking.

Set around a sparkling clean swimming pool, the pretty whitewashed villas enjoy a high level of privacy thanks to clever planting of flowering shrubs and palm trees.

The ominous root of a giant tree creeps curvaceously around heavily impastoed leaves, leaving us to wonder if the turquoise shrubs below will be under attack or embrace.

The park also aims to develop native species of trees and shrubs, from which the statues emerge with more or less success (the Zen garden around the Serra is pretty much redundant).

Born from the collaboration between artist Jeffrey Scudder and Linked by Air, Shrub allows the user to create digital «rubbings» of the world around them.

We first noticed the brown and yellow birds thrashing noisily in the bayberry shrubs outside Wave Hill House, and we've been seeing them all around the grounds ever since.

Using «rough» compost (where not everything has completely broken down) over flowerbeds and around shrubs, helps prevent soil erosion and will replenish much needed nutrients.

Also, if the vegetation changes substantially — low grass to shrubs and trees - then this could change water evaporation rates around the station and alter air temperatures.

A transect was conducted on laurustinus shrubs (Viburnum tinus) around Montpellier (France) to retrieve the species described by the French obstetrician.

As far as trees or shrubs, don't mulch right up to the stems; spread it around the roots only.

Spreading leaves in a thick layer around the base of perennial plants and shrubs helps to protect their roots from winter temperatures.

People are creative: when Bush Jr. (or Shrub as he was called before being called Bush 43) published his autobiography around the world people in bookshops moved his book and Blair's (Tony B - liar) or Pastor Blair) autobiography from the biography section to the «True Crime» section.

When it comes to the trees, shrubs and plants around a house, homeowners often don't know what their home insurance policies cover.

Create a 50 to 100 foot fire - safe space free of trees, shrubs, and tall grasses around your home.

Utilizing IPM procedures to control pests in and around residences, offices, aquatic areas, food service areas, lawns, shrubs, trees, and storage areas

• Discuss golf course maintenance and planting plans with managers to determine aesthetic outlooks • Confer with gardeners and other maintenance staff to plan planting and maintenance activities • Indulge in grass cutting and weeding duties by using both hand and power mowers • Plant grass, trees, shrubs and flowers according to instruction dictated by master plans • Pull weeds around flower beds, bushes and trees to create and maintain the look of the gold course

Flower or shrub beds around the corner of your yard, encircling trees or alongside your house can create appealing symmetry.

Using it to fill in the areas around our shrubs and walkway added a finished look for less.

Use mulch to help reduce water evaporation around trees and shrubs.