Sentences with phrase «with dead plants»

Or maybe a #winning parent with dead plants?

I built the stand to fit a ceramic planter I had lying around (with a dead plant carcass inside).

Too bad it's cluttered with a dead plant, garbage, a weed eater, paint supplies, a giant grill, and scattered chairs.

Not exact matches

«One night I was coming back to my cart and there was a dead man laying right there,» Arthur said, pointing to a small patch of ground planted with bushes.

1) FOSSIL RECORD: made of not only bone to stone fossils, but also amber, dehydrated corpses, footprints in mud / ash to stone fossils, leaf and insect imprints in various forms of stone, along with many other forms of preservation of dead animal / plant life from times long ago.

Last fall, with my cookbook tour, I never pulled out the basil plants that took over much of the garden, so their dead stalks still stand in a creepy post apocalyptic row.

It has been empirically proven with the dead husks of numerous plants.

Over wintering is a fickle affair but you can improve your chances of success by: - Growing species that are more cold tolerate like Pubescens - Improving climatic conditions by bring plants indoors - Removing ripe pods before over wintering - Cutting back woody stems and removing dead or diseased growth to keep pest & disease at bay - Controlling water regimes If your attempts at over wintering are littered with more failures than success all is not lost.

In and around lakes and streams, this influx in nitrates can lead to plant growth out of whack with the local ecosystem's ability to handle it, resulting in oxygen - free «dead zones» devoid of marine and riparian life altogether.

The findings, published online this week in the journal Ecology, show that the type of plants growing on the surface of our peaty moorlands can change how quickly dead plant material is broken down, influencing the speed with which carbon from dead plant matter is released back into the air we breathe.

When these bugs land on the plant, they get stuck on its sticky, hairy surface (as with the beetle pictured above) and die, coating the columbine with dead bodies.

If I were a plant I would «play dead» complete with all the methane output.

The decrease in inflammation is likely a combination of the anti-inflammatory effects of many plant foods (Fighting Inflammation in a Nut Shell) and the pro-inflammatory effects of animal foods (see the 3 - video series ending with Dead Meat Bacteria Endotoxemia).

The decrease in inflammation is likely a combination of the anti-inflammatory effects of many plant foods (see Fighting Inflammation in a Nut Shell), and the pro-inflammatory effects of animal foods (see the three - video series ending with Dead Meat Bacteria Endotoxemia).

I have also with a strictly plant based diet eliminated enough inflammatory factors to be free of the arthritis but the diabetes will always remain since the beta cells are now dead.

Blending essential oils, therapeutic plants and mineral sea water, these skin - friendly formulas are made with natural de-ionised water with pure Dead Sea minerals, harmonised water and organic plant extracts, and all are 100 per cent organic.

Not dead, denatured, refined - oil, If you want to boost protein, do it with vegan protein powder, and high - protein unprocessed plant foods like legumes and nuts rather than animal products like meat, eggs, and cheese.

Made with plant - based lactic acid, this body mask sloughs away dead skin cells without irritating skin or harming its protective barrier.

Enriched with a combination of three plant extracts, Lancôme's Énergie De Vie Foam Cleanser is an innovative, micro-foam cleanser that can rid the skin of makeup and pore - clogging impurities, all while exfoliating dry, dead skin cell buildup on skin's surface.

Armed with an alien nursery - worth of zombie - zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

The series begins with a boy named Ned (Field Cate) who discovers he has the power to bring the dead (be they people, animals, or plants) back to life.

Washington — With their dead bees, green plants, and electrical gear in hand, elementary - school pupils joined scientists at the National Academy of Sciences here last week to help introduce a new science curriculum designed to help them «learn science by doing science.»

Almost a century later, John's grandson and author Bryan Mealer's father, Bobby, left his steady but dead - end job at a chemical plant near Houston for the oil booms and busts of Big Spring, Texas, taking a big chance on oil with his mercurial cousin Grady.

The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.»

First, the brown, churning water - the circle of our river around us; inside that, the quilt squares of our fields, which were turned dirt, newly planted seeds, the bright green carpet of a field just beginning to come to life, fences mended or falling down into the soft new grass, humped haystacks, our cattle herd, our sheep herd, our goats, bare birch trees pointing straight into the heavens; and in the center, in the heart, our cobbled and dirt streets, our red - tiled and gray - shingled roofs radiating out from the town square with its statue of a long - dead war hero in the middle.

For example, the big - name game title selection is spotty; you'll find Angry Birds, Monopoly, Dead Space, Madden, Plants vs. Zombies, and Need For Speed, but none of the other big franchises like NBA Jam, Dungeon Hunter, Infinity Blade, Real Racing, or even Scrabble or Words With Friends.

Second, bad release timing, Capcom planted DmC square between DS3 and FC3 so gamers had already dipped into their gaming money pool to get the FC3, so their next buy was either gamble with DmC or go with Dead Space 3 that already been heavily hyped and looking to be a winner out the gate.

In more recent years Capcom has continued to do very well with titles like Lost Plant, Dead Rising, and Devil May Cry 4 all selling a million plus copies.

On offer are Battlefield 3 (guns), Dead Space 3 (space guns), Mass Effect 3 (more space guns), Bejeweled 3 (there are a lot of 3s), Plants Vs. Zombies (zombies, how original), Medal of Honor: Warfighter (guns with a stupid name) and SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition, which, actually, is pretty good.

Despite being pulled away from sniping, it is fun coordinating with teammates on where to place trip wires and which dead enemies you should plant mines on to slow the mob of soldiers zeroing in on your location.

Now those games have been revealed: just pop into SimCity by that date and you'll be notified by March 22 with a choice among Battlefield 3, Bejeweled 3, Dead Space 3, Mass Effect 3, Medal of Honor: Warfighter, Need for Speed Most Wanted, Plants vs. Zombies, and SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition.

The road leads to the central piece: Elisheva Biernoff's They Were Here (2009), a generically painted sixteen - foot - long mural of an island paradise with white sand beaches and waterfalls; among the hidden details are exploding volcanoes, extinct plant life, dead birds, and shipwrecks.

This great German artist and visionary, who locked himself in a cage with a coyote, planted trees for the future and talked to a dead hare was not only the most charismatic of performers but a master draughtsman.

As the performers moved about the space in a random pattern of loose choreography, they sang the lines: «Who say you have to be a dead dog... One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do... And it comes down, it comes down, well it comes down, and it comes down, it comes it comes... Scores of blood and fire and freeways, I am going to get my share... One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do... Who say you have to be a dead dog...» Handling each other's bodies with as much regard as the set's props, the performers alternate between a cappella and in - the - round chorus, fugue and eventually total discordance, rising as high as Math Bass as she climbs to the top of the ladder supported by her full cast in order to smash the plant and end the performance.

Extending themes from «Dead Treez», the artist turns the gallery into a garden - like environment of poisonous plants with three scenarios, in which bodies sheathed in patterned fabrics have succumbed to violence often endemic to marginalized communities.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

«Balindile I» by young rising South African star Nicholas Hlobo is a long phallic hosepipe sculpted out of inner tubes which grow into a rubbery plant slumping like an undignified dead animal and sewn together with ribbon.

Lignite of the Living Dead notes that utilities may keep coal plants running at a loss for many reasons, including: hopes that governments will make capacity payments for guaranteed power supply or payments to retire plants; expectations that competitors will close plants, pushing power prices up; the clean - up costs associated with retiring plants; and opposition to closures from governments for political reasons.

The metabolic processes that are responsible for plant growth and maintenance and the microbial turnover, which is associated with dead organic matter decomposition, control the cycle of carbon, nutrients, and water through plants and soil on both rapid and intermediate time - scales.

He mentioned a recent project where the landscape architect was concerned that they were planting in the dead of summer with 100 - degree weather and how that would affect the survival of the plants.

That's because a working electricity system fueled mostly by wind turbines requires additional massive costs that a fossil fuel system does not: huge excess capacity (perhaps 300 - 400 %) to deal with conditions of light wind; gigantic batteries to store power for conditions of no wind at all, which can persist for days; extra transmission lines to bring electricity from windier areas to the rest of the country; and finally, an entire array of fossil fuel back - up plants for those occasions when the wind doesn't blow for a week and the batteries are dead.

That's troubling because a huge amount of dead plant life, packed with carbon, is frozen in Arctic soils.

Phosphorus is the biggest cause of water quality degradation worldwide, causing «dead zones», toxic algal blooms, a loss of biodiversity and increased health risks for the plants, animals and humans that come in contact with polluted waters.

There is a lot more land in the Northern Hemisphere that goes through a dramatic cycle in plant activity, with most plants playing (or even being) dead over the winter and springing to life in the Spring.

In any event, dead web or living web, the browser war was over, having been replaced by a more colourful conflict on smartphones with plants and pigs defending respectively against zombies and flying birds.

Yes, it is 2011, soon to be 2012, and the Dinosaurs, the most successful species to ever populate the earth (for approximately five hundred million years) were not extinguished due to their inability to evolve and grow with natural changing conditions, but were simply eliminated by a one - in - a-million extra-terrestrial event over a short period of time (one to three years), as were all forms of sun reliant life with the exception of a few ocean dwelling species, subsurface ground dwelling worms, plant life like lichens and other mindless species able to lie dormant for extended periods of time, as well as nocturnal, ground dwelling little rodents that ate roots, dead or alive, (from which we so - called superior life forms evolved).

Not only are our vines completely dead and all of our pots filled with the crispy remains of last year's plants, but the cushions on our chairs are completely faded and just really yucky.