How To Use Shrub In A Sentence
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Brigalow vegetation is found to the east, and gidgee (A. cambagei) woodlands or shrublands are scattered across the region on alluvium or other more fertile clay soils.
Eastern Australia mulga shrublands
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At this point we must trace our way back, pass through the flowering shrubs and plunge into the shade of a little wood.
The Education of a Gardener
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Over the winter months we've been doing a great deal of clearing up on our part-neglected croft garden, grubbing out and shredding dead shrubs and cutting back those that have either grown too large or are crowding others.
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Here we find a good deal of open ground, with thickets of shrubby Artemisias and Gnaphaliums, like our southernwood and cudweed, but six or eight feet high; while Buttercups, Violets, Whortleberries,
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1
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To acidify soil, sprinkle two tablespoons of aluminum phosphate or sulfur around the shrubs in early fall.
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If you were to take out two or three shrubs to let the remainder breathe, what sort of rhythm would be left?
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Still, the same rule can be applied in a household garden when planting herbaceous plants and smaller shrubs.
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One morning, while visiting in a Blackfoot Indian camp, I saw the men smoking kinnikinick leaves, and I asked if they had any legend concerning the shrub.
Wild Life on the Rockies
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Unlike much of the valley, the shrubs and trees closer to the building were unburnt.
WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
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To the rear of Old Hall is a large walled garden that has lawns and a variety of plants and shrubs, as well as strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, rhubarb, plum and apple trees.
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Garden walls and fences may offer protection from cold, but the wind can push forward any shrubs growing against them.
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Meanwhile, I'll continue to grow it as a background shrub and cut its aromatic mauve branches for flower arrangements.
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To the front and rear of the house are lawns and shrubberies, but the grounds also contain two acres of young trees, a wildlife pond, mature woodland and banks of rhododendrons.
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You could see flowering shrubs but not reach them.
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It is in lawn and includes mature trees and shrubs, herbaceous borders, a rockery and a water feature.
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Two shrubs here are desert broom and burro bush, while wildflowers include desert honeysuckle, with long, tubular, brick-red flowers, and woolly feverfew, with white or greenish flowers.
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The trees, bushes and shrubs are as green as anything.
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For early blooming shrubs such as forsythia and viburnum, prune them as soon as blooms have passed.
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Ammopiptanthus Cheng f. is the only genus of evergreen broadleaf shrubs in the north-western desert of China.
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They pressed ahead, blundering into the woods through the darkening maze of trees and shrubs.
Christianity Today
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Outside, to the rear of the house, is a walled garden with a terraced lawn, a patio, shrubs and mature trees including a pear tree.
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Baths were taken in tubs and emptied after use on shrubs in the courtyard.
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Here we walked through a large lawn of uncut grasses dotted with early-summer bulbs and flowers following a winding, mowed path leading into shrubbery and woodland.
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The developers have included water features, seating area and shrubberies in the landscaped gardens which surround the scheme.
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The front garden slopes away from the house, with the incline packed with an interesting array of shrubbery and tall flowers - white flowering eucryphia and myrtle blend with statuesque hoheriay and elegant miscanthus grasses.
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Human impact, mainly from grazing, fires, and firewood collection, has transformed the majority of the existing holm oak forest into secondary, dense shrubland, known as "maquis", or into agroforestry landscapes constituted by scattered trees on grasslands or crops.
Iberian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests
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Carambola, a small tree or shrub, is thought to be native to Java or other parts of Indonesia, and perhaps also Sri Lanka.
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Berberis darwinii is a small, dense shrub, spiny of leaf and stem, like an angry little holly.
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Good gardening practice would be to leave a layer of leaf litter on the soil between shrubs and trees in garden beds.
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Outside the cobblelock forecourt to the front of the house is bordered by plants and shrubs and has plenty of space for offstreet parking.
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Autumn is when deciduous small trees and shrubs really earn their keep.
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The next thing I knew stentorian voices were to be heard outside, accompanied by high-powered torch beams piercing the shrubbery.
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When perched on shrubs, it often pumps its tail up and down like a phoebe.
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For early blooming shrubs such as forsythia and viburnum, prune them as soon as blooms have passed.
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Use: Related to the frangipani but more drought tolerant, this small shrub is evergreen.
Desert rose, dracaena and pothos: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico
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The valley has hosted a mountain rosefinch population of about 150-300 breeding pairs since the 1970s. Breeding habitats for rosefinches consist of shrubby, mostly wet and humid meadows.
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To protect shrubs, erect a windbreak by inserting stout canes round the plant and then fixing several layers of hessian or netting to them.
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This shrub has clusters of white flowers with an outer ring and an inner ring.
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So there's nothing but the shale leading down, then there's some shrubs; and the body was kind of headfirst down the hill, "Bilskie said.
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They placed shrubs-roses, azaleas, altheas, forsythia, crepe myrtle, spirea, camellias, nandina, and wild honeysuckle-throughout the yard.
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When cleaning out the dead debris from flowerbeds, also prune any shrubs and push plants back into the soil that have heaved with the frosts.
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With a little shrubbery or plants, such fences can provide very attractive barriers along property lines.
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In the perennial border, a shrublet is the plant that's always in bloom, providing a wonderful contrast with peonies in the spring, delphinium in midsummer, and phlox in late summer.
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It looked a little like Texas scrubland, flat, open brownness with small shrubs and bits of grass cropping up here and there.
I’m Still Standing
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The shrubs' flowers are bell-shaped and hang like so many Chinese lanterns on a single stem.
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They're likely to be trees or shrubs which show up in winter but become a backdrop for the rich summer display.
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A blinding coat of white blanketed the thick shrubbery that defined my garden.
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This ecoregion is a broad arid intermontane basin interrupted by hills and low mountains and dominated by grasslands and shrublands.
Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)
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The fasciated honey-eater has loudly called “with a voice that seemed the very sound of happiness”; the leaden flycatcher, often silent but seldom still, has twittered and whispered plaintively; the sun-birds are playing gymnastics among the lemon blossoms, and the centre of activity for butterflies is the red-flowered shrub bordering the wavering path.
Tropic Days
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Major climate-related species distributions at the large scale include the limit of trees, which is associated with the isoline for mean July air temperatures of about 10 °C [3] (as discussed in [4]) and soil temperature of 7 °C [5], and the limit of woody plants such as dwarf shrubs that are one indicator of the boundary of the polar desert biome [6].
Recent and projected changes in arctic species distributions and potential ranges
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Is it like pruning shrubs, so the more I shave my face the faster it will sprout on top?
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The garden is split level with a paved area, a well manicured lawn and a shrubbery with water feature.
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The neighbourhood, however, is interesting enough on account of the curious aqueducts for supplying the town with water, and the Mercede forest which, in D'Urville's opinion, might more justly be called a coppice, for it contains nothing but shrubs and ferns.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century
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Nests may be built in trees and shrubs but are frequently found under building overhangs, in attics, barns, garages and sheds.
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Roses grown primarily for flowers in the landscape, like big floribundas and shrubs, should be left higher, and pruned mainly to keep the plants confined to the space you allowed for them in the first place.
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Underneath a big tree are various other plants, shrubs, liane, and so on, forming an interacting ecological structure.
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*] A dwarf shrub belonging to the genus STENOCHILUS, but new, was found here [**]; and we met also with a large spreading tree, from which we could bring away nothing that would enable botanists to describe it, except as to the texture and nervation of the leaves, which,
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
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The water-race down the wall is shown by mosses and lichens, pellitories, and rock-plants; curtains and hangers; slides, shrubs, and weepers of the most vivid green, which give life and beauty to the sternest stone.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
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Threatened plant species currently being protected or monitored include the endemic saltpan cresses (Lepidium kirkii and L. sisymbrioides matau), the upland shrub Hebe cupressoides, the endangered Hector's tree daisy (Olearia hectorii), native Peraxilla mistletoes, and the epiphytic forest shrub Tupeia antarctica.
Cantebury-Otago tussock grasslands
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The Arboretum contains four hundred species of tree and shrub including walnut, beech, cedar, giant thuya, cypress and cork oak.
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The planting in the courtyard, with tall swaying grasses and flowering shrubs, softens the hard lines of the steel and glass structures.
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Now, Philip, we'd like to hear about your shrub money and then we'll have time to see Jack's coldframe plans, before club time is over," at which Jay settled back in his chair as if club work was a strain on a fellow after all.
The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
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To start, they planted shrubs and small trees, including dogwoods, serviceberries, witch hazels, and native rhododendrons.
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If you were to take out two or three shrubs to let the remainder breathe, what sort of rhythm would be left?
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Some of the smaller trees and shrubs had survived the destruction, and their branches were budding.
GALILEE
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It's a marvellous thing as a backing to other shrubs, in flower and autumn colour.
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The cars are die-cast models; the buildings are built by Smith, constructed out of Gator board, plastics such as styrene and Sintra, and found objects (and it looks like the old model makers standby of lichen for shrubs).
Ellybabes
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Here is a jade-coloured conglomeration of life resembling nothing in the world more than a loose handful of worms without beginning and without end, interloped and writhing and glowing as it writhes with opalescent fires; and here a tiny leafless shrub, jointed with each alternate joint, ivory, white, and ruby-red respectively; again this tracery of gold and green and salmon pink decorating a shiny stone, in formal and consistent pattern.
My Tropic Isle
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Here are a few shrubs growing on these shelly heights, viz. Rhamnus frangula, Sideroxilon, Myrica, Zanthoxilon clava Herculis, Juniperus Americana, Lysium salsum; together with several new genera and species of the herbacious and suffruticose tribes, Croton, Stillingia, &c. but particularly a species of Mimosa (Mimosa virgatia) which in respect of the elegancy of its pinnated
Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
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Fifty species of bonsai, comprising trees and shrubs, are on display.
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The whilk Swedish feathers, although they look gay to the eye, resembling the shrubs or lesser trees of ane forest, as the puissant pikes, arranged in battalia behind them, correspond to the tall pines thereof, yet, nevertheless, are not altogether so soft to encounter as the plumage of a goose.
A Legend of Montrose
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But a shrub garden needs less room and will reach maturity in far less time.
The Education of a Gardener
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American Kestrels are found in a wide variety of open habitats, among them agricultural areas, grasslands, sagebrush, shrub-steppe, steppe, and dry forest zones.
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There are also over 150 illustrations of native trees, common flowering plants and shrubs, as well as many animal species.
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But if you have plenty of room against a wall, go for a large wall shrub like Magnolia grandiflora.
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Establishment of long-term grass swards has had some success, and planting birch (Betula pubescens) and native willows (Salix lanata and S. phylicifolia) is proving a successful conservation measure, using mycorrhizal inocula, for re-establishing species and habitat diversity of grasslands, shrublands, and woodlands that were lost through overgrazing [22] [23] although non-native species can cause problems.
Human impacts on the biodiversity of the Arctic
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Beyond them came the beauty of the Hoxworth lane: to the left and north stood an unbroken line of croton bushes imported by Whip from Guadalcanal in the Solomons, and of all that grew on his plantations, these were his favorites, these low sparkling bushes whose iridescent green and red and purple and gold and blue leaves were a constant source of wonder; but to the right ran a long row of hibiscus trees, low shrublike plants that produced a dozen varieties of fragile, crepelike flowers, each with its own dazzling color;
Hawaii
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A writer in the "Mercury" says: "The root of the buttonwood or crane willow, a shrub which is conspicuous in our swamps in the spring, when boiled with honey and cumfrey, makes a pleasant syrup, which is the most effective remedy known to me in diseases of the lungs.
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
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One method I tried with some success was to cut each branch back a foot after it had grown 2 feet until it was a multibranched shrub.
28 additional technical notes about tropical agriculture
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On the ground, climbing fern creates tough, spongy mats that can easily smother grasses, low-growing shrubs, and small trees.
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But it is all gone now, and the pert cockneyfied house stands up among the shrubberies and walnuts, surveying the ruins of what has been.
At Large
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DATURA Family: Solanaceae Genus: Datura Species: Species: fastuosa: large shrub with white flowers inoxia (Don Juan's Datura): native to mexico metel: native to India. sanguinea (Eagle Datura, Tonga): Native to S.America. stramonium (Jimson Weed): Dangerous hallucinogen widespread in temperate regions.
Natural Highs Frequently Asked Questions by Vince Cavasin
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The spectacular spring flowers of azaleas and rhododendrons make them among the most popular garden shrubs.
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Xeric and halophyte shrublands, grasslands, riverine shrublands, coastal lagoons.
Southeastern Iberian shrubs and woodlands
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Edwinia, with its attractive waxy white flowers, and potentilla, with bloom of gold, are shrubs which lend a charm to much of the mountain-section.
Wild Life on the Rockies
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The thickness of the mulch will prevent weeds growing around the shrubs.
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A modest, undemonstrative fellow, Shrubb was visibly moved as the crowd ignored the joyless Glasgow weather and offered him a spine-tingling welcome.
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This is "sisal," the shrub that could save the forests of The Gambia!
In the direction of my daydreams
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Dover, Delaware The house, overgrown with weeds and shrubbery, had no ostentation.
MAMBO
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This shrub offers burgundy-green foliage and hot pink, fringy blooms primarily in late winter-spring.
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Human impacts, mainly grazing, fires, and firewood collection, have transformed the majority of the remaining wild olive and carob plant communities into secondary dense shrubs, known as "maquis," and into agro-forestry landscapes comprised of scattered trees on grasslands or crops.
Mediterranean woodlands and forests
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Now retama, a hardy bitter shrub, grows in these plains of pumice; the flats of it are pumice and rapilli, white and brown.
A Tramp's Notebook
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These sparrows breed in native shrub-steppe habitats or in small patches of unplowed grass and shrubs near agricultural fields.
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Choices may include climbing roses, floribundas, hybrid teas, and easy-care shrub roses.
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At the higher elevations, manzanita is the abundant shrub, while midslope shrubs include chamise, coffeeberry, redberry, and two kinds of mountain mahoganies.
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Scattered shrubs include two kinds of low-growing blueberries and the dwarf live oak, which is less than a foot tall.
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Planted with a southern aspect to take advantage of the low arc of the winter sun, it has trees, shrubs, herbaceous plants and dwarf bulbs.
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Shifting winds blew clouds of spray over the rocks, trees, and shrubs until they seemed to be sheathed in alabaster.
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Other evergreen shrubs such as juniper would be good candidates for cold-winter areas.
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Similar to grass shears, only longer, this tool is useful for trimming shrubs and hedges.
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There will also be plants grown especially for the vegetable plot as well as herbs, herbaceous perennials and shrubs.
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The unmown grass, the ragged-looking shrubs, that pile of dead limbs and brush behind the poplar: Some would say, as my misinformed neighbors have hinted from time to time, these are symptoms of a good-for-nothing homeowner.
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In flower-beds, stake tall perennials such as delphiniums and hollyhocks by using canes for individual flower stems or by pushing twiggy prunings from shrubs and trees into or around the clump.
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The relatively dense vegetation cover provided by the lancewood-bullwaddy canopy results in a sparse grass cover, while the extensive canopy cover and infrequency of fire provides an environment which supports forbs, small shrubs and vines with rainforest affinities.
Victoria Plains tropical savanna
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Marta and her friends roll along a weedy dirt road and hide their van deep in a tangle of shrubs and trees.
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This can be grown into a large shrub or small tree.
The Sun
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Caragana korshinski, salix psammophila and sweat vetch hedysarumi are three good sand shrubs for resisting wind, protecting water and soil, improving ecosystem.
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The shrub layer includes lowbush blueberry, black huckleberry, dangleberry, staggerbush, inkberry and sheep laurel.
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A planted holly shrub and wilted pink daisies now adorn the area.
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There were winter flowering shrubs such as witch hazel, and arrowwood, which blossomed in spring and produced berries in the fall.
The Roots of a Gardening Obsession
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About it stood fir-trees, short and bent, and its sides were steep and clothed with harts-tongue and shrubs of whortle-berry.
The Fellowship of the Ring
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She had conceived of a barren desolate waste, shrubless and treeless; and she saw grassy hillocks, leafy copses, and even, as she thought, patches of dwarfish woods.
The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands
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In California, the chaparral and coastal sage shrubs form excellent cover for rodents, rabbits, and birds.
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Areas within the pheasant management counties that contain adequate winter cover such as cattail and shrub-carr marshes, well established native prairie fields, and areas with 15 percent or more of the landscape in idle grassland will have the highest pheasant densities.
Undefined
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A commercial garden centre was the next target, with hedging shrubs disappearing overnight.
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From 6000 to 7000 feet, plants of the temperate regions blend with the tropical; such as rhododendron, oak, ivy, geranium, berberry, clematis, and shrubby _Vaccinia, _ which all made their appearance at Loongtoong, another Bhoteea village.
Himalayan Journals — Complete
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In the pioneer days of the great west, coffee and tea were hard to get; and, instead of them, teas were often made from garden herbs, spicewood, sassafras-roots, and other shrubs, taken from the thickets [89].
All About Coffee
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In that time we have planted more than 54,000 native trees and shrubs and reintroduced 88,000 herbaceous plants citywide.
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Outside, the back garden is landscaped with a rockery area, lawn, patio area and gravelled area incorporating shrubs and climbers.
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Slender deutzia is an attractive deciduous shrub with a long history as a garden favorite.
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One hundred and fifty native trees and shrubs were planted on Lackham Estate in Ashlea field.
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Rugged shrubs like barberry and potentilla give the garden permanent structure, while the rocks help protect the plants from searing winds and keep the soil from drying out.
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Here we can gaze upon the green from the pine-wood and fields, the grey from the granite and schist, the live colours from the genistas, the heathers, the shrubs and the oleanders.
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They require a mosaic of heath, blanket bog and wetland, with rough grazing, shrubs and trees for cover.
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Autumn or early spring is a good time to start layering a shrub.
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So saying, the Robin trilled out a pleasant farewell, and returned to the shrubbery grounds, where, in an ivy covered wall, he had found for himself a snug little winter's home.
Parables From Nature
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On the McDonald Islands, tussock grass Poa cookii is common on eastern slopes and lower parts of the plateau, while cushions of Azorella selago cover higher areas, with Kerguelen cabbage Pringlea antiscorbutica, and dwarf shrub Acaena magellanica.
Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Australia
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Sky flower is a common name for golden dewdrop, a towering shrubby perennial with pendulous clusters of white, lavender or purple flowers followed by golden berries.
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Do you make it a habit to see that each shrub is facing precisely in the direction it should be?
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Wall shrubs including pyracantha or ornamental quince can be trained and get less out of control than some vigorous climbers.
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Some edaphic associations are Chamise series on shallow soils, Leather oak series on shallow serpentinitic soils, Needlegrass grasslands on Vertisols, and Manzanita shrublands on silicic sandstones.
South Coastal Santa Lucia Range (Bailey)
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For favorite evergreen shrubs that can be espaliered, Garland Nursery's Karen Hobson lists the following: waxleaf privet (Ligustrum texanum), cotoneaster parneyi, euonymous japonica (many varieties), loropetalum, ceanothus, and photinia.
Undefined
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Like the Himalaya, alpine elevations support shrubbier vegetation on northern exposures because these hold a protective blanket of winter snow.
Tian Shan montane steppe and meadows
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Mother was a very keen gardener and under her supervision we grew all our own vegetables and looked after the flower garden and shrubbery.
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If it is dense enough, shrubbery can provide a home to ground-nesting birds such as doves and thrushes as well as small mammals like rabbits.
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For a short while, as the leaves turn on deciduous trees and shrubs, autumn colours command the stage.
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Spring-flowering shrubs include such popular plants as forsythia, deutzia, lilac, viburnum, mock-orange and spirea.
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It is a shrub with chartaceous leaves.
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Once this stage is reached, there is no turning back and the clematis quickly covers trellis and wall, pulling itself into shrubs and trees along its way.
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The sheer number and variety of perennials that she grew was staggering, but in addition there were the flowering trees and shrubs.
A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
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This section of the highway cuts through the island's rough interior, offering travelers views of stark rocky mountains, shady eucalyptus groves around gurgling streams, and the omnipresent tan-and-green-dappled shrublands Italians refer to as Mediterranean macchia.
Enjoy the Ride
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There's no lawn to mow, no billowy shrubs to prune, few flowers to fuss over.
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Golden-winged Warbler territories usually included a shrubby field with patches of herbs and shrubs, a field-forest ecotone and adjacent forest.
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Both lead to a cobblelock patio area and a winding path through the long narrow garden, which is planted with flowers and shrubs and features some attractive rose trestles.
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Once the shrubs begin to smother the little plants, we have to move them.
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Witch hazels may lack the flower power of forsythias or the head-over-heels perfume of lilacs, but they have one attribute that distinguishes them from other flowering shrubs: timing.
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Direct planting seeds can be cheaper than planting seedlings and usually results in a denser stand of trees and shrubs.
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But shrubs are bigger than the little navelworts, and our garden space is finite.
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However, nourished by dew, the eastern Jidda 'is relatively well vegetated with a very open acacia woodland of small Acacia tortilis and Prosopis cineraria trees with shrubby A. ehrenbergiana growing in shallow sandy depressions, rock fissures and in drainage swales on the gravel plains.
Arabian Oryx Sanctuary, Oman
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The natural foraging diet of wild deer ranges from heather and shrubs to herbaceous parkland.
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At 8,900 feet, Junipers cease, woods of Q. ilecifolia and Pinus cedroides, Rosa microphylla, shrubby Rhododendrons, that which was arboreous previously now becoming shrubby, Berberis asiatica, Taxus or
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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It may be necessary to provide water for high-value trees and shrubs during dry periods or droughts to promote vigorous growth.
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At middle elevations, dense thickets of shrubs such as desert ceanothus, alderleaf mountain mahogany, and catclaw mimosa form chaparral communities.
Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)
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Remove labels from new trees and shrubs as this advertises the fact that they are new and easy to remove.
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He would let it leap from the grass into the thicket to burn the understory shrubs.
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The other shrub is the cherry laurel, which is actually a cherry and should perhaps be called the laurel cherry.
Times, Sunday Times
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In addition to intercropping, trees and shrubs (agroforestry) are the anchor perennial species, providing mycorrhiza for mobilizing phosphorus and other nutrients. and these trees and shrubs promote soil protection against erosion by wind and water.
Opportunities and constraints from genetic modification technologies in Africa
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Casual gardeners may envision low shrubs with puffball blooms in shades of pink and blue, but these so-called mophead hydrangeas—technically known as Hydrangea macrophylla—are only the most common varietal out there, and in my experience, aren't reliable bloomers.
Hydrangeas' Fall Flower Show
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In some areas of Argentina, the Andean degraded caespitose (growing in dense tufts) herbaceous vegetation with open stands of dwarf shrubs includes Acantholippia hastulata, Adesmia horridiuscula, Baccharis incanum, Ephedra breana, Fabiana densa, Junellia seriphioides, Psila boliviensis, Senicio viridis, and Tetraglochin cristatum.
Central Andean dry puna
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The sloe is a shrub common in our hedgerows, and belongs to the natural order Amygdaleae; the fruit is about the size of a large pea, of a black colour, and covered with a bloom of a bright blue.
The Book of Household Management
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In dune areas, anchoring shrubs such as Havard shin oak, fourwing saltbush, and yucca stabilize the dune sand for herbaceous grasses and forbs such as sand verbenas, sunflowers, fringed sagewort, and hoary rosemary-mint.
Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)
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Old shrubs, such as spiraea, forsythia, lilac, and honeysuckle, often become overgrown and full of crowded stems and dead wood.
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This suggests that most phlomis, including the shrubby ones from the Mediterranean, are hardy.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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The arctic meadows, tundras, and steppes contained the herbaceous plants, leaves, and sprigs of shrubs and low shrubs needed for the mammoth to feed on and survive in glacial Siberia.
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The white stinkwood trees are in bud at the moment, and the wild sage shrub is about to burst into bloom - you'll know them from their heady scent.
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That's when the foliage of many trees, shrubs, and vines starts to turn brilliant shades such as port, cherry red, and bonfire orange.
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He drove the party through the grounds, sometimes over clumps of bush and through shrubbery as he lost the way in his excitement.
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The house also has the benefit of a pleasant south-facing garden with a fair-sized lawn, a patio plus a variety of established plants and shrubs.
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The holistic distribution characteristics of 4 species groups:evergreen vs. deciduous and tree vs. shrub species along the altitudinal gradient were then analyzed.
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Shrub roses underplanted with catmint or lavender will seldom suffer from greenfly infestations.
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Vegetative cover is predominantly semi-desert grassland and arid shrubland, except for high elevation islands of oak, juniper, and pinyon pine woodland.
Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)
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Other shrubs with showy berries include viburnum species, firethorn, Aucuba japonica, barberry, cotoneaster, chokeberry and Skimmia japonica.
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Shrubs: chittamwood (a bumelia also called gum-elastic), yaupon, spatulate-leaved hawthorn.
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At the highest altitudes (c. 3,000 m) the forests become shrubby, with the vegetation consisting of Hypericum patulum and Rhododendron burmanicum, and the herbaceous plants include Aconitum, Lactuca, Pedicularis, and Veronica.
Chin Hills-Arakan Yoma montane forests
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If the shrub is badly affected, dig it up and dispose of it.
The Sun
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He planted a number of flowering shrubs in the garden.
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A planted holly shrub and wilted pink daisies now adorn the area.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most of the existing wetlands are freshwater, coniferous scrub/shrub wetlands, with small palustrine forested wetland complexes as well as Atlantic White Cedar wetland complexes.
2009 March « Beachwood Historical Alliance
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Acokanthera shrub, which has bark filled with "ouabain", closely-related to a source of arrow poison famously used to kill elephants.
USATODAY.com News
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We drink it through a bombilla, the little metal suckable strainer they also use in Argentina to drink maté, an exuberantly undrinkable local tea brewed from some violent green shrub.
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Species include bloodwood Eucalyptus terminalis, tea-tree Melaleuca sp., acacia, lamb's tails Ptilotus sp., shrubs and grasses Themeda avenacea, Enneapogon cylindricus and Eragrostis eriopoda.
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia
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Another favorite shrub, a spirea called ‘Bridal Wreath’ or ‘Shoe Button’ plant, has a completely different appeal, providing varied styles of attractiveness throughout most of the year.
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More than 20,000 smaller trees and shrubs of varying types will also be planted, including climbers trained across the environmental barrier.
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As the leaves open on most trees and shrubs, a haze of light green surrounds the plants and herbs of the garden.
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He led Jessica around trees, bushes, shrubs, and an empty cement pool that was at least twelve feet deep.
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Two groups of small shrubs that like such conditions are the rock roses - Cistus and Helianthemum.
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Fresh paint has been applied, and pathways have been lined with bark chips, new trees and shrubs.
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That is where you've got grazing land largely, and it appears that the woody vegetation, trees, eucalypts and acacias, native pines and other shrubs, are becoming denser and denser.
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These hills afford neither shrubs nor flowers, but furnish the finest specimens of millepore in the world; and the water courses are full of fossil productions.
Domestic Manners of the Americans
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It is a scandent shrub, and its purple-black drupes are likely dispersed by birds.
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This spiraea is common and sometimes derided because of this, but it is an easy-to-grow deciduous shrub with attractive reddish young leaves that mature to dark green and lovely deep carmine pink flowers from mid to late summer.
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A rare nocturnal sport, batfowling consisted of going into a forest or shrub-laden area and beating birds senseless with a bat.
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Shrubs such as hawthorn, field maple, blackthorn, beech, hornbeam and holly make good hedging.
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Flowering or fruiting shrubs can be pruned according to whether they flower in spring or summer.
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The entrance to the house and gardens at this amazing attraction is a long winding road past mature stands of conifers and deciduous trees underplanted with flowering shrubs, ferns and wildflowers.
Your Happy Place « Fairegarden
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Autumn is a good time to propagate shrubs by layering, a simple technique that can also be done in spring.
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The garden is full of marigolds, pansies, dahlias, primulas and nasturtiums, as well as shrub roses and climbers.
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To Jules -- our most fragrant daphne shrubs are blooming as we speak -- a winter bloomer with the most gorgeous perfume ever -- it lifts my heart in winter while waiting for the Spring lift -- and I hope it will lift your heart when u may be grieving.
Paradis - French Word-A-Day
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And the pink weigelia is almost a fool-proof shrub.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twelfth Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, October 6 and 7, 1921
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Shrubs with waxy leaves, such as camellias, gardenias and ixoras always look fresh and composed.
