Sentences with phrase «small plants and flowers»

Old watering cans, bowls, candle holders or shoes with small plants and flowers, placed on a wooden ladder, make gorgeous garden decorations that add personality to your backyard decorating ideas and help recycle useless items.

Old wooden ladders make elegant garden decorations with small plants and flowers, wind chimes and watering cans, creating a beautiful focal point of unique garden design.

It spends its day running through the grass, finding small plants and flowers to eat.

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This resulted in a move back to planting, where appropriate, larger deciduous trees and fewer of the smaller flowering trees.

The Inca Inchi plant is a small one with small hermaphrodite flowers producing small pods (green at first and brown when ripe) which usually has 6 lobes.

Excessive nitrogen causes the plant to return to vegetative growth and abort flowers and small pods.

Plant two feet or upwards in height, more erect and less branched than other varieties, and much stained with purple at the intersection of the branches and at the insertion of the leaf - stems; leaves of medium size, or small, long, and sharply pointed; leaf - stems long, deep - green; flowers white, tipped with purple, about three - fourths of an inch in diameter; flower - stems long, purple.

Plant two feet and upwards in height, stocky and branching, the stem and branches often stained or clouded with purple; leaves large, on long stems, smaller, smoother, and less sharply pointed, than those of the Squash - pepper; flowers white, sometimes measuring - nearly an inch and a half in diameter.

Pods pendant, sharply conical, nearly two inches in length, half an inch in diameter, of a brilliant scarlet when ripe, and exceedingly piquant; plant about eighteen inches high; leaves numerous, of small size, and sharply pointed; flowers white, nearly three - fourths of an inch in diameter.

A small flower and / or vegetable garden helps you teach your children how plants grow and provide hours of outdoor entertainment.

A synthetic drug — modeled after the alkaloid cytisine from the small flowering Laburnum trees of Europe chemically combined with a compound from the poppy plant — it also curbed drinking in seven rats with continuous access to alcohol and 30 rats trained to self - administer liquor when stressed.

Xinnian Dong of Duke University in North Carolina and colleagues studied how Arabidopsis thaliana, a small flowering plant, defends itself against a fungus - like pathogen, Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis.

«If there's a high fitness cost to the glyphosate resistance allele, most of the surviving plants will be small or will flower late and they won't produce many seeds.

The fossil, taken from amber mines in Myanmar, dates 97 - 110 million years ago to the early - to - mid Cretaceous, when the land was still dominated by dinosaurs and conifers, but the earliest flowering plants, grasses and small mammals were beginning to evolve.

The researchers used a modified line of Arabidopsis thaliana, a small flowering plant related to cabbage and mustard, to conduct the experiment.

In the study, caterpillars were placed on Arabidopsis, a small flowering plant related to cabbage and mustard.

For example, Lychnis alpina, a small pink - flowering plant in Scandinavia, and Haumaniastrum katangense, a white - flowered shrub in central Africa, are both associated with copper.

Discovery of the new species was a small part of a five - year, $ 4.36 - million National Science Foundation - funded study — led by Bohs — to better classify and create a comprehensive online inventory of all 1,500 species in Solanum, one of Earth's largest genera of flowering plants.

Nicknamed pebble plants and mimicry plants, the self - protective succulents look like small, flowering rocks.

The leaves grow as rosettes, and the plant bears beige flowers that give way to small fruits with seeds.

The plant's flowers are typically small and can range from green to yellow - green.

In summer months, clusters of bright blue flowers bloom at the end of each stem, and small black - or, less commonly, white - seeds contain the majority of the plant's essential nutrients.

Bean plants have oval leaves and small white or pink flowers, and they can grow up to 12 feet (4 m) tall.

The goji berry plant is characterized by its thorny stems, smooth bright green leaves, purple flowers, and distinctive orange - red berries, which can be larger or smaller depending on the goji species.

The plant has also culinary uses (mainly in its native Mediterranean region); lavender leaves, petals, and flower tips are all edible straight from the plant, and they can be added in this way to soups and salads in small quantities.

All four major species of Hamamelis are tolerant of partial shade and valued as large shrubs or small trees that flower when few other plants are in bloom.

When Danielle does add color, she brings it in in small doses through flowers, a bountiful supply of plants, small accents, and art.

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Have a cat and small dog; like to grow plants / flowers.

► Lightning strikes a lighthouse and we see a close - up of gel spreading and becoming larger at the base of the building where a small fire burns briefly; a wall of gel rises like a curtain from a jungle forest into the sky, making noises like muttering and muffled roars as we hear that the phenomenon is spreading and destroying all species on Earth; five scientists armed with military rifles enter the area to find trees that have become covered with flowers, woody plants have grown into human shapes covered with blossoms, the bodies of three missing soldiers have been engulfed with vines, moss, and lichens that have grown out of the bodies and the head of a soldier is found in a path (we see no blood or facial expression).

A woman develops a tattoo - like mark on her arm, then begins to grow tiny twigs and buds along one arm and she walks away into a meadow, where we see she has become a woody human - shaped plant covered with small flowers and another person develops a figure - 8 mark on one forearm, but she changes no further.

I try not to keep flowers and plants in the house because the cats like to eat them, so I wasn't surprised to see a small portion of leaf eaten off of one of the lilies.

The dwarf poinciana plant is similar to the Brazilwood, but smaller and has orange and red flowers instead of yellow and red.

A healthy rabbit diet of hay, fresh vegetables and herbaceous material is adequate, but because wild rabbits also turn to trees and other parts of plants for added nutrition, supplementing your pet rabbit's diet on occasion with seeds and fruits in small quantities, broccoli and cauliflower flowers or florets, and tender shoots and twigs — especially those from apple trees — is a special treat.

The plants produce small white flowers in the summer and orange colored berries around Christmas time.

Establishing what stimulates your cat is based on trial and error, although some commercially available toys have majority appeal, such as those that contain high quality dried catnip (using the dried flowers and leaves of the catmint plant only), fishing rod toys with feathers on the end, small objects on wire that move erratically and small, fur mice.

Flowers, plants, cleaning products and even human foodstuffs can all be harmful when ingested in even small quantities.

Just one small bite of a flower, leaf, stem or even the pollen of this plant can cause gastric distress, and, more importantly, if left untreated, can lead to fatal kidney failure.

The plant is a low - growing perennial forming basal (base of stem) rosettes of compound leaves, and produces small, white flowers in clusters.

Downtown Santa Barbara Farmers Market — Come down and buy local fresh vegetables, fruits, flowers, small plants and specialty items.

BEACHCOMBERS TIP: of the two plant types angiosperms (flowering) and gymnosperms (seeds not in a seed case), these are flowering plants, with small non-descript flowers of a sort on the blades.

A shabby style kitchen where to start your day with a good breakfast and a small terrace with flowering plants and fruit trees to relax.

These houses give way to narrow alleys, all of them prettily lined with small gardens and window boxes planted with flowers, mostly bougainvilleas, in an array of colours.

Minca is a small village in the Sierra Nevada Mountains where you can discover coffee plantations, hiking routes, waterfalls, banana trees and other tropical flowers and plants.

Whether in the acrylic flower forms he has burgeoning off small panels or the vast, almost drapery - like gouaches on paper he has bedecked with yet more stylized floral, and animal, forms, Zakanitch celebrates nature - plants, birds, other wild beings - in a way that determines a fine line between the naïve and the elegant, the dopey and the exquisitely limned, the hermetic and the expository.

Most types of garden waste can be recycled, including bark, flowers, grass and hedge cuttings, leaves, plants, small branches, twigs and weeds.

Hummingbirds, bats, beetles, bees, ants, wasps, butterflies, and other small animals help plants reproduce by transporting pollen within a flower or between flowers, resulting in healthy fruits and fertile seeds.

For example, the açaí palm (Euterpe oleracea), whose small purple berries are already well known in the US and Europe as a health product, and the jambu plant (Acmella oleracea), whose leaves, branches and flowers are much used in local culinary dishes, contain the alkaloid Spilanthol, known for its anaesthetic and anti-inflammatory properties.

+ + + + + If you sort the collection by «sort field,» the entries will be arranged in the following order: 1) annual, biennual, and reseeding wild flowers; 2) generic native plants; 3) grasses; 4) ground covers; 5) large trees; 6) perennials; 7) shrubs; 8) small trees; 8) vines; 9) wetland plants.

Three years after planting, pistillate flowers begin to emerge in small clusters plants and staminate flowers develop on male plants with up to twelve flowers in a cluster; only now can plant gender be determined.