ADJECTIVE
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having the roots matted or densely tangled
shaggy untended lawns of old trees and rootbound scented flowers and shrubs - (of a potted plant) grown too large for its container resulting in matting or tangling of the roots
How To Use rootbound In A Sentence
- If a rootbound plant is not available, use a tiny clay flowerpot or a small cardboard transplanting pot, a large tangled mass of string stuffed into the pot, and an artificial flower to be inserted into the string mass. Nurturing Spirituality in Children
- You get a glimpse of this when you pull up a clump of grass and get a cubic foot of rootbound soil along with it. The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States
- shaggy untended lawns of old trees and rootbound scented flowers and shrubs
- Look for healthy plants having dark green leaves with no browning or wilting, and also choose those that appear rootbound.
- The damn hanging pots need to be messed with regularly because the plants get rootbound, stop draining water, and start to rot -- % $#@ work! Archive 2004-07-11
- I think the ideas get rootbound without that refreshing input from the real world. Art or Nature?
- Don't buy leggy plants or ones that are overgrown and rootbound.
- They looked like chrysanthemums, bedraggled, rootbound, and probably frozen now. In the Still of the Night
- However, the roots of seedlings raised more than 6-8 weeks in containers spiral and become rootbound, negatively effecting their subsequent growth in the field. Chapter 8
