ADJECTIVE
- thriving in a relatively acidic environment (especially of plants requiring a pH well below 7)
How To Use acid-loving In A Sentence
- If, for instance, you have alkaline soil you can dig a large hole, fill it with ericaceous compost and grow acid-loving plants such as azalea and foxgloves.
- the gardener talked about the proper substrate for acid-loving plants
- For potted evergreens or more acid-loving plants a more acidic fertilizer should be used.
- Without fish, insects become the dominant species and acid-loving insects, such as water boatmen, proliferate.
- Pine needles tend to increase the acidity of the soil so they work best around acid-loving plants such as rhododendrons and blueberries.
- Pine needles tend to increase the acidity of the soil so they work best around acid-loving plants such as rhododendrons and blueberries.
- The flora of the site is of southern Alpine type with acid-loving plants on the volcanic rhyolitic north slope soils and lime-loving plants on the dolomitic and limestone dominated southern slopes. Monte San Giorgio, Switzerland
- But such a sea might not have been a boon to life, even though acid-loving microbes persist here; high levels of phosphorus argue against a living presence.
- Pine needles tend to increase the acidity of the soil so they work best around acid-loving plants such as rhododendrons and blueberries.