Sentences with phrase «woody plants like»

Plants that lose their leaves before any cold sets in, such as woody plants like Oak and Hickory Trees, gradually start to lessen water and nutrient availability and stop it all together in order to prevent freezing.

Not exact matches

These physical barriers need to stay around the plants until (like peppers and tomatoes), the stems become somewhat thick and woody.

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.

As a result, both private companies like UOP, government agencies like DARPA and commercial organizations such as CAAFI have begun to consider a broader array of sources, including the oil from the seeds of Brazil's babassu palm tree or the conversion of the woody or cellulosic parts of plants.

Things like no fire or differences in climate change may allow woody plant species to competitively take over grasslands.»

Peering into a single cladoxylopsid tree stump would be like looking at dozens of smaller «trees,» the woody strands held together by the plant's soft tissue.

Ashwagandha is a moderately well - known herbal supplement made from a woody, shrub - like plant.

► 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.

Project Drawdown defines perennial biomass as: the use of perennial grasses and coppiced woody plants for bioenergy feedstock, instead of annual crops like corn.