How To Use Thistle In A Sentence

Common knapweed is like a pretty thistle without prickles. Times, Sunday Times
The message from Thistle, though, is they are not makeweights in this Premierleague.
Regrowth usually occurs, but this treatment will reduce competition from Canada thistle in soybeans and help prevent production of more rootstock.
These so-called host plants include many broadleaf weeds and cover crops such as nettles, mallow, chicory, dandelion, thistles, bindweed, deadly nightshade, and many clovers.
The plants sprouting now include grasses, clovers, dandelions, several types of thistle, mustards, and small composites.

The thistle at far right signifies the Scottish-born Stewart's ancestry, that plant being Scotland's national emblem.
Containing dandelion, burdock, sarsparilla, milk thistle, liquorice, yellow dock, turmeric and red clover, a bottle provides about 30 servings as you dilute it with either still or sparkling water.
WHY are the leaves on my globe thistle turning brown? The Sun
The thistles, knapweeds and willowherbs are truer purple, but the bluish nettle-leaved bellflowers and field scabious are also tinged with that mysterious shadow which has more to do with night than golden day. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
The dried sample is then transferred to a small thistle-headed funnel which has been cut off from its stem, and the opening plugged with a little glass wool, and round the top rim of which a piece of fine platinum wire has been fastened, in order that it may afterwards be easily removed from the Soxhlet tube. Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
The cardo gobbo hunchbacked thistle is a perfect example. Where Health Springs Eternal
Some landscapes these days have been reduced to nothing but dandelions and fire ants, knapweed and thistle, where the only remaining wildlife are sparrows, squirrels, and starlings.
Milk thistle has been used to treat hepatitis and alcoholic liver disease, both serious conditions way beyond drinking a bit too much. Times, Sunday Times
It is a tall plant up to 3ft high and the flower head is just as prickly as a thistle.
In reality, this product is the thistle of the safflower plant.
Like hundreds of others, I have found that taking milk thistle seems to have an almost magical effect on digestion. Times, Sunday Times
Here, flowers cross-pollinate, birds settle indoors, thistles break through floors, and shards of glass and china lie on the grass.
At present, I am sipping a Dr Stuart's detox tea which has lots of herbals such as dandelion, milk thistle and burdock to help cleanse the liver.
It. cardone (or Sp. cardon) great thistle, teasel, cardoon, augm. of cardo: L. cardus, carduus thistle, cardoon, or artichoke. The Big Apple
Roundup can be used if thistles, Johnsongrass, or other perennial or biennial weeds are present in the small grain stubble.
The larvae of the painted lady butterfly - the thistle caterpillar - have been drawing a large amount of attention from anyone who has observed Canada thistle patches this spring.
Other edibles include thistle-like giant globe artichokes that vie for attention with the real thing, cardoon thistles as big as your fist and a fennel patch which can only be described as a forest.
Rare species such as wavy St. John's-wort, meadow thistle, and whorled caraway can also be seen.
Crystal Mountain's Thistle Pub & Grille, located in Kinlochen, a Scottish-inspired lodge near the Clipper quad lift, might sound rather bar-like and it does have a wide selection of Scottish ales, Michigan wines, designer martinis and single malt whiskeys, but it's helmed by CIA-trained executive chef Darren Hawley who regularly whips up such exquisitely delicious delights as smoked pheasant and morel galantine with pickled beet and goat cheese gateau. Pam Grout: Crystal Mountain Resort: Skiing for Grownups
M. Naudin states, that a certain kind of furze or thistle, of which cattle are very fond, may be made to grow without thorns -- an important consideration, seeing that at present, before it can be used as food, it has to undergo a laborious beating, to crush and break the prickles with which it is covered. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 448 Volume 18, New Series, July 31, 1852
The newly seeded alfalfa has plant bugs and potato leafhoppers and established alfalfa has army worms, alfalfa loopers, thistle caterpillars, and variegated cut worms.
I prescribed herbs for her - milk thistle and dandelion - and the levels of toxins in her liver came down.
Niger thistle appeals especially to pine siskins, goldfinches, and purple and house finches.
The statuesque theme continues in the vegetable garden where there are great fronds of fennel and huge clumps of Cynara Scolymus - globe artichoke, their purple thistle heads abuzz with bees.
Dog roses, bramble, nettles and thistles provide good for birds such as goldfinch, greenfinch, chaffinches and the occasional rarity such as brambling or bullfinch.
Meet Sir Cecil Thistlethwaite, the celebrated theological statistician.
Some of the most commonly used herbal galactagogues are fenugreek, blessed thistle, and alfalfa.
Canada thistle is identified by shallow lobed leaves with short spines on the margins and a greenish color on both sides, often lighter on the lower side.
“They are too slight and unsolid pledges, my lord,” said the Queen; “add at least a handful of thistle-down to give them weight in the balance.” The Abbot
They are psyllium, taurine, dandelion, St Mary's Thistle, globe artichoke and slippery elm bark, which have liver protective, restorative properties.
First, let me state that it is not because it is a thistle - the niger thistle is really more closely related to safflower or sunflower and like these crops is high in oil.
: _A Thistle: a Thistle and Rose dimidiated and crowned_, No. 308, with the motto -- “_Beati Pacifici_” (Blessed are the peacemakers). The Handbook to English Heraldry
The thistle is armed with sharp prickles; the mallow is soft and woolly. Hymns in Prose for Children
The bizcacha has one very singular habit; namely, dragging every hard object to the mouth of its burrow: around each group of holes many bones of cattle, stones, thistle-stalks, hard lumps of earth, dry dung, etc., are collected into an irregular heap, which frequently amounts to as much as a wheelbarrow would contain. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
I'd also like to take antioxidant vitamins and the herbs astragalus and milk thistle to help prevent a recurrence, but my doctors disagree.
Feeder watchers always appreciate safflower and thistle seeds, as well as suet cakes.
Keep taking a milk thistle supplement, it will help your liver cope with the toxic overload of all that booze. The Sun
It's fitting that thistledown, which provides Gilmore with an increasingly significant image over the years, should be the subject of one poem.
Occasionally, broadleaf weeds, such as Canada thistle or ragweed, become established in winter wheat fields and interfere with grain harvest or with the following soybean crop.
Nearby, the rough grass and scrub contain large stands of teasels and thistles, which provide seeds for finches - goldfinch, chaffinch, bullfinch, brambling and siskin are frequent winter visitors.
The home crowd were in raptures, cries of ‘Ole Ole’ echoing around the stadium as their players lined up to pepper the Thistle goal.
You can't believe how many young people dressed up as thistles or Proust hectored you in the streets.
Though quite why he had it in for Henry Burgum the pewterer was a mystery—oh, Burgum was a dyed-in-the-wool villain, but what precisely had he done to Mr. James Thistlethwaite? Morgan’s Run
Tiny vivid goldcrests flurried about thistles, the cool descended, and I took the direct descent to the valley floor.
Milk thistle aids the liver in cleansing the blood. PCOS DIET BOOK: How you can use the nutritional approach to deal with polycystic ovary syndrome
Beyond that lay the two-acre paddock -- wind-sewn with thistles and ragwort. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
Milk thistle first seems to have made its appearance here on the office scene in connection with alcohol. Times, Sunday Times
Dead, spiky thistles and small wild melons, which even sheep won't eat, are the only vegetation in Mr Grove's moonscape-like fields at Cowra, 250 km west of Sydney.
These last are well worth waiting for; the flower spikes can be up to nine feet tall, bearing stately heads of rich purple, thistle-like flowers above the toothed, grey green foliage.
For instance, in my particular case, I use milk thistle, which is silymarin, because it sort of nurtures the hepatic cells. CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Andrew Weil Discusses `Eating Well' - April 5, 2000
The first is a battern topaz, same of thistles, emerald, ensigned with an imperial crown proper, and thereon the crest of Scotland, which is a lion sejant guardian ruby, crowned with the like crown he sits on, having in his dexter paw a sword proper, the pommel and hilt, topaz; and in the sinister a sceptre of the last. Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities
Where early travelers saw sharp-tailed grouse, bison, bighorn sheep, grizzly bears, numerous beaver and even wolverines, today they see dust, feral horses, and noxious weeds including cheatgrass, halogeton and Russian thistle. Bird Cloud
'a lion sejant affronte gules crowned or, '&c. The adoption of the thistle as the national Scottish emblem is wrapt in obscurity, although an early poet attributes it to a suggestion of Venus. line 153. Marmion
Together they stepped out a measure, she moving like thistledown and he like a swordsman. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Highly invasive thistles from Europe have widely hybridized in Australia.
Creeping thistle, haunt of the charming meadow brown butterfly, can become a real pest if it gets a foothold.
Sunflower seeds appeal to many of our wintering birds, but the goldfinches and house finches prefer thistle seed, while the ground-feeding sparrows and doves enjoy millet or a mixture of high quality seeds.
If larger birds such as grackles are a problem, choose feeders designed for small birds, such as a thistle tube or hanging globe.
My favourite plant, lavender, is something of a delicacy for goldfinches - when they've finished all the thistledown, that is.
Liquid formulas and pills containing such herbs as spirulina and milk thistle, chlorophyll, red clover, echinacea and licorice root are ingested.
It might have seemed at first as though the future railway engineer was going to settle down quietly to the useful but uneventful life of an agricultural labourer; for from tending cows he proceeded in due time (with a splendid advance of twopence) to leading the horses at the plough, spudding thistles, and hoeing turnips on his employer's farm. Biographies of Working Men
You could, of course, write a thesis about Wodehouse but the endeavour would be like trying to preserve thistledown between sheet glass.
However, if this is done before July, many beautiful wild flowers, such as melancholy thistle, wood cranesbill and bistort, which are special to limestone uplands of the north, are mown down before they can seed.
Adult commas feed from flowers such as dandelions and thistles.
Arms of the Office are -- _Arg., a lion sejant erect and affronté gu., holding in his dexter paw a thistle slipped vert, and in the sinister an escutcheon of the second; on a chief az., a saltire of the first_: No. 266. The Handbook to English Heraldry
It comes without a whisper , quiet as thistledown, brushing the corner of a hillside garden.
Mrs. Glass, sir, that sells snuff and tobacco, at the sign o’ the Thistle, somegate in the town.” The Heart of Mid-Lothian
But just let it rain and the next thing I know I've got thistles out there with stems big as my wrist.
'Grass-rose,' or put it out of court for having no petals; but it certainly shall not be called rosaceous; and my first point will be to make sure of my pupils having a clear idea of the central and unquestionable forms of thistle, grass, or rose, and assigning to them pure Latin, and pretty Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
Tom Thumb's mother once took him with her when she went to milk the cow; and it being a very windy day, she tied him with a needleful of thread to a thistle, that he might not be blown away.
But, largely thanks to the efforts of the ‘Save the Jags’ campaign, under whose auspices Thistle supporters rallied to raise funds, the immediate threat of closure was staved off.
The stone wall at the front still came up to my waist, and you could still sit down and run your hand over the thistled, clovered grass that ran right up to the edge. Weight of the World
She leaned out of bed, and watched Thistle strew the fine dustlike grains in each shoe. The Children's Book of Christmas Stories
So we put a leaf of the thistle in our beam projector and broadcast it to the field. Secrets of the Soil
Featuring all the worst aspects of a neglected garden on one side of the fence, including dandelions, thistles, and molehills, it had a beautiful cottage garden on the other.
Spray perennial weeds such as bindweed and Canadian thistle with a glyphosate-based herbicide before first frost.
This was toplofty thinking, but then tall thistles are apt to think tall thought.
Upon payment of the required amount of stamp duty, the blank paper was embossed with a red stamp, ornately engraved with the rose and thistle emblem of Queen Anne.
Containing dandelion, burdock, sarsparilla, milk thistle, liquorice, yellow dock, turmeric and red clover, a bottle provides about 30 servings as you dilute it with either still or sparkling water.
The species endemic to the mountain include its two most representative species, sticky broom Adenocarpus viscosus and the widespread Teide white broom Spartocytisus supranubius, also Teide violet Viola cheiranthifolia which grows up to the summit, Teide edelweiss Gnaphalium teydeum, dwarf bugloss Echium auberianum, the thistle Stemmacantha cynaroides and the Teide catmint Nepeta teydia var. albiflora. Teide National Park, Spain
However, it now joins list of plants recorded that are said to prefer moister soils: square-stalked St. John's wort, gipsywort, marsh thistle, greater bird's foot trefoil.
In this neighborhood, the gardens consisted of thistle and skunkweed, and the paintings were done with spray cans. BAD MEDICINE
-- The article undergoes the process of scouring before described, and, after being well rinsed and drained, it is put on a board, and the thread-bare parts rubbed with a half-worn hatter's card, filled with flocks, or with a teazle or a prickly thistle, until Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
Although these thin gloves may not hold up the best when you're doing tougher chores like pulling thistles or pruning rose bushes, they make a great addition to your gardening supply kit.
Many fine chasers have been good hurdlers, but the ease with which Thistlecrack has made the transition makes him exceptional. Times, Sunday Times
Santolina is clipped into clouds and punctuation is provided by six foot tall teasels, milk thistles, huge artichokes and great clumps of bear's breeches.
Herbs such as dandelion leaf and root, milk thistle, artichoke, Oregon grape root, chelidonium and curcumin also support liver function.
It's the flower of France, you know – just as the thistle is the – ' The Convert
Many herbal remedies are potentially hepatotoxic, and only milk thistle can be used safely in patients who have chronic liver disease.
There is no evidence of toxicity related to the pure form of milk thistle, and there is weak evidence of a hepatocyte plasma cell membrane protective effect.
Partick Thistle were another team celebrating after clocking up their third league success of the season with a 3-1 triumph over Stirling Albion at Firhill.
Earning their stripes: Home captain Scott Thomson tries to dig the ball out for Dunfermline as Partick Thistle's Jamie Mitchell attempts to barge him out of the way at East End Park yesterday.
Did he ever (like most of us) catch some floating bit of emotional thistledown & go on from that, or did he plan on a subject like an architect? After Prayers, Lie Cold « Unknowing
Yeah look I will struggle to make it - the CAA has just driven up and want to followup a compliant from one of my lifestyler neighbours who are claiming my helicopter spraying around their block is killing them and I therefore have no right to control my weeds - so it looks like I will be pulling the thistle chipper out of the back of the shed
Andy, remember, one of the herbs you put me on was milk thistle, which is very soothing and protective. CNN Transcript Apr 15, 2002
Actually there is a lot of evidence for herbal remedies that work - including St John’s wort, milk thistle, cannabis, shark’s cartilage which is known as chondroitin and included with glucosamine for help with joint pain, dandelion, oh lord there are too many to document here. F.D.A. Takes Aim at Herbal Cancer ‘Cures’ - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
Another common thistle is spear thistle, which is sturdy, silvery and even pricklier. Times, Sunday Times
Suddenly it was mid-June and noxious weeds—leafy spurge, cheatgrass, hoary cress, Canada thistle—grew everywhere. Bird Cloud
Other weeds, including sand bur and thistle, can also scratch and irritate your skin.
She would have run off, if I had let her - I caught her one day heading for the thistled horse paddocks; after that I kept her tender feet unshod and let the bindi-eyes do the policing with their peculiarly masculine and wordless perseverance.
The flower heads are small and numerous compared to other thistles and the roots are extensive.
The main weeds dying back were creeping thistle, couch and mature knotgrass.
VAIL, Colorado - Plumeless thistle (Carduus acanthoides) and musk thistle (carduus nutans) are commonly seen plants that are currently blooming around Eagle County. Vail Daily - Top Stories
It. cardone (or Sp. cardon) great thistle, teasel, cardoon, augm. of cardo: L. cardus, carduus thistle, cardoon, or artichoke. The Big Apple
Thistle as the emblem of Scotland in Ruskin's "Proserpina," pp. 135-139. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare
She says she also watched her diet and took milk thistle, and that she continues those practices today.
Many early emerging summer annuals, including giant ragweed, kochia, crabgrass, lambsquarters, and Russian thistle, are removed during tillage, allowing the crop and any new weeds to emerge together.
Everywhere she flaunted her yellow banner and trailed the purple of her mantle, that was paler in the thistle-heads, took on strength in the first opening asters, and glowed and burned in the ironwort. Freckles
Milk thistle seems fairly safe too, so it could be worth a try if you've been overdoing the sauce. The Sun
Liquid formulas and pills containing such herbs as spirulina and milk thistle, chlorophyll, red clover, echinacea and licorice root are ingested.
Over the years, he has seen his weeds change from tough, hard to manage weeds, such as quack grass or thistle, to less noxious weeds that are easier to control, such as foxtail and common ragweed.
Milk Thistle is a unique herb which contains a natural compound called silymarin.
Lesser celandine and bulbous buttercup supply colour in spring, ragwort and carlile thistle in autumn, but the main burst of flowering is in May, when the varied pinks of a multitude of thrift cushions spreads upwards from the South and West and the north-western turf is starred with the blue of spring squills.
But when they or their rivals, silverweed, burdock, false ragweed, thistles, gumweed, and others usurp the landscape and seem to choke up the very earth and the very air with ceaseless monotony and repetition, then they become an offence to the eye and a reproach to those who tolerate them. Over Prairie Trails
But Thistle, to their credit, refused to be bowed and they continued to go for the winner.
Spartan herbicide has provided excellent control of troublesome broadleaf weeds, such as kochia, Russian thistle, and pigweed in no-till sunflower for the past several years.
Closest to a firth: Inverness Caledonian Thistle's Caledonian Stadium takes this one by a mile. Which football stadium is closest to water?
It's used to get rid of dandelions, thistles and ragweed and it kills by causing abnormal cell growth that interrupts the movement of liquids and nutrients in the plant.
Thus far, especially in Scotland where the slavish adherence to the received wisdom of the unions is strongest, there is little sign of that thistle being grasped.
So, too, while in our meadows we purposely propagate tender fodder plants, like grasses and clovers, we find on the margins of our pastures and by our roadsides only protected species; such as thistles, houndstongue, cuckoo-pint, charlock, nettles Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
In addition, biennial weeds such as musk thistle, wild carrot, and burdock should be eliminated before establishing forage.
Grasp the thistle firmly.
Some of Scotland's hottest couturiers are drawing on old - fashioned styles and fabrics - but not all their creations will protect you from thistles.
The grass hasn't been mown for some time - it was knee high - and there were flowering thistles as well.
The women wore deerskin dresses, leggings, moccasins, and petticoats made of woven nettle or thistle fibers.
For instance, dock and beggarticks often indicate wet soil, while thistles and mullein indicate a dry soil.
Grasp the thistle firmly.
The road led across a high and level prairie ridge, where were but few plants, and those principally thistle, (_carduus leucographus_,) and a kind of dwarf artemisia. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources
Time was, carline thistles were used as country barometers because the flowers expand in dry weather and contract when it is damp.
The thistle is a biennial plant, and this one is in its first year, when it develops a deep taproot.
A Ladahki monk who had been venerating the statue picked his way past the ladies as if through a patch of thistles.
A: The evidence is still fairly scant by scientific standards, but it does appear that milk thistle - or, really, one of its components, which goes by the name silymarin - can and does shield liver cells from assaults as varied as acetaminophen overdose and cleaning fluids. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
Here I munched my sandwich and watched a sheep carefully and daintily nibble flowerheads off thistles.
Today, on the back of two World Cup triumphs, the reigning Tri-Nation champions dwarf the thistle's playing resources.
Avoid tilling overly aggressive or invasive plants that produce root-buds, such as crabgrass, johnsongrass, bindweed or Canada thistle.
The oil from the seeds of cotton thistles was extracted for fuel and knapweed, centaurea scabiosa, was believed to promote healing of bruises and wounds.
There are several big holes in the grassy area around the playground, large stinging nettles and thistles, loose nuts and bolts on the park's railings and uneven ground.
Its congener, the _agouti_, affects the arid sterile plains of Patagonia, while the _biscacha_ is most met with on the fertile pampas further north; more especially along the borders of those far-famed thickets of tall thistles -- forests they might almost be called -- upon the roots of which it is said to feed. Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
Seedeaters such as evening grosbeaks, goldfinches, and pine siskins prefer black oil sunflower and niger thistle.
A rich diversity of plants thrive in the wet conditions at Greena Moor including bog pimpernel, marsh violet, saw-wort and abundant meadow thistle and devil's-bit scabious.
Milk thistle has been around a long time and there is evidence it can help mild liver damage, including that caused by excess alcohol. The Sun
Nutrients in fertiliser and slurry encourage aggressive species such as nettles and thistles at their expense.
Butterflies fluttered thistle to thistle and flat fields stretched to low horizons but south, a mile away, the Wolds rise sharply.
This was 1898, Edinburgh, a dreadful hotchpotch of thistles, tartan hatching, drooping highlanders, wounded stags. THE TARTAN RINGERS
Some characteristic endemics exclusive to the Park such as Caňadas rockrose Helianthemum juliae, Teide edelweiss Gnaphalium teydeum or the thistle Stemmacantha cynaroides number only 200 specimens; of others, like the endemic Teide burnet Bencomia exstipulata, there are barely 60 specimens - almost 75% of the natural specimens of this species grow on the summits of Tenerife and La Palma. Teide National Park, Spain
The thistles, sorrel and prickly lettuce have set seed in the midvalley; wild asters, sunflowers, and chamisa are blooming, the grasses catch and hold the mellowing sunlight in their tawny seedheads and the color transformation on the north facing slopes has started. Aspen Times - Top Stories
That food consists of various seeds - including grasses, alfalfa, nettles, thistles, shepherd's purse and cranesbill.
The former Partick Thistle co-manager is still as irrepressible as ever, still as frisky and enthusiastic as a puppy.
Henry's post starts: "Unafraid as I am to pin my hamster to the mast in a sudden crisis, I shall splench my mainwairing to the thistledown and gladiate hencewithstanding. Weblogs
He is determined by his gestural artistry and resilient thistle-downiness to "sanction and fortify the natural human passion for believing that life can somehow, behind all the miseries and the mysteries, mean something profoundly worth while. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-21
The women wore deerskin dresses, leggings, moccasins, and petticoats made of woven nettle or thistle fibers.
All day long the happy pair enjoyed each other's company aloft, leaping from corn-ear to thistle-head, from thistle-head to poppy, and back again to corn-ear, feasting, frivolling, stalking bluebottles. "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character
So they add defences - thistles have prickles and tough leaves, nettles have stings, other plants have toxins.
Like thistledown, she floats from one position to another, scarcely aware of him yet somehow connected, even dependent.
Meanwhile, they are six clear of Rangers who sank further into the mire yesterday when they could only get a draw at home to Inverness Caley Thistle.
Mostly here it is pines but there were some maples and the understory verge was thistle and burr shoulder to shoulder with thistle-like knapweed.
To a very decent merchant, a cousin o 'my ain, a Mrs. Glass, sir, that sells snuff and tobacco, at the sign o' the Thistle, somegate in the town. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete
A thin mist floated like thistledown from the marshes, which were so distant that they were visible only as a pinkish edge to the horizon. The Miller of Old Church
I have made the Scotch Thistle Lace Stole in "thistle-y" colors and had it with me when we toured Scotland in 07. Jean's Knitting
In addition, biennial weeds such as musk thistle, wild carrot, and burdock should be eliminated before establishing forage.
These so-called host plants include many broadleaf weeds and cover crops such as nettles, mallow, chicory, dandelion, thistles, bindweed, deadly nightshade, and many clovers.
I also gave Meninx a weak infusion of swallowwort leaves and thistle root, and it seemed to do her some good. Wildfire
On grassy banks, small and large skippers are feeding on thistle flowers and the pink wild basil. Times, Sunday Times
Ming Hyobuyou shi lang, thistle Liaoning Governor Germany have troops there forever.
Many fine chasers have been good hurdlers, but the ease with which Thistlecrack has made the transition makes him exceptional. Times, Sunday Times
On Deborah's pillow I had placed the Walter Thistle watercolour, still wrapped in its oilcloth. THE DUTCH BLUE ERROR
Nettles and thistles grew in one corner, where an old wine keg had been thrown. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
He also had raced at Mountaineer Race Track and at Thistledown, riding 19 total winners.
I got the Scottish lion and thistle to remember my dad. The Sun
He added trials showed more than 90 percent control on several weeds, including wild oats, foxtails, pigweed, lambsquarters, wild buckwheat, kochia, wild mustard, and Russian thistle. Undefined
It was also shocking to me that their habitat inspector failed to notice the noxious weeds—leafy spurge along the waterways, Canada thistle, cheatgrass and other troublesome invaders largely spread by cattle. Bird Cloud
Beneath fields of tamarisk and prickly pear, Indian ricegrass, snakeweed, and Russian thistle, a plume of contaminated water stretched for a subterranean mile.3 The stream, half again as wide as it was long, contained about 4.5 million polluted gallons from the ore itself and the various chemicals that VCA poured through it to draw the uranium out. Yellow Dirt
Crystal Mountain's Thistle Pub & Grille, located in Kinlochen, a Scottish-inspired lodge near the Clipper quad lift, might sound rather bar-like and it does have a wide selection of Scottish ales, Michigan wines, designer martinis and single malt whiskeys, but it's helmed by CIA-trained executive chef Darren Hawley who regularly whips up such exquisitely delicious delights as smoked pheasant and morel galantine with pickled beet and goat cheese gateau. Pam Grout: Crystal Mountain Resort: Skiing for Grownups
Musk thistle, one of Nebraska's seven noxious weeds, is widespread and reduces agricultural production on farms and ranches.
The key to good control of musk thistle with herbicides is to control young plants in early May while they're in the rosette stage.
As opposed to the theory that there is any absolute need for cross-fertilisation, it has been urged by Mr. Henslow and others that many self-fertilised plants are exceptionally vigorous, such as groundsel, chickweed, sow-thistle, buttercups, and other common weeds; while most plants of world-wide distribution are self-fertilised, and these have proved themselves to be best fitted to survive in the battle of life. Darwinism (1889)
The images of the Scottish thistle, the lion rampant, and the Saint Andrew's cross on the national flags come from that period.
Sensitive plants include legumes such as clover, peas and beans; Asteracea such as thistles, dandelions and sunflowers; and Solenacea such as nightshade, tomatoes and potatoes.
It is this scene which Birthistle, a Catholic, believes will cause the biggest stooshie among those of her faith.
The flag of Scotland is known as the saltire pictured below or St. Andrews Cross. thistle. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Keegan quashed speculation that he is about to add Inverness Caledonian Thistle striker Dennis Haynes to his staff.
Several weed species, including kochia, Russian thistle, and field sandbur are extremely drought tolerant.
Globe artichokes are members of the thistle family and, with their robust leaves and inedible choke, they can seem rather arduous to prepare. Times, Sunday Times
Plants to look out for include sneezewort, meadow thistle, petty whin, pale dogviolet, early purple and heath spotted orchids.
For instance, dock and beggarticks often indicate wet soil, while thistles and mullein indicate a dry soil.
Scientific analysis of Milk Thistle shows that it contains a flavonoid complex called silymarin, which is largely responsible for the medical benefits of this herb. Wil's Ebay E-Store
Weed killers remove wildflowers and traditional grasses, then more aggressive species such as cleavers, thistles and nettles colonise.
Containing dandelion, burdock, sarsaparilla, milk thistle, liquorice, yellow dock, turmeric and red clover, a bottle provides about 30 servings as you dilute it with either still or sparkling water.
Among species characteristic of this habitat are Russian thistle, cocklebur, witchgrass, inland Sea Rocket and velvetleaf. Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve, Ohio
Ted and Mary thought sport was a waste of time - the boys could expend plenty of energy grubbing thistles, or helping with hay making on the farm.
You can also try taking milk thistle. The Sun
Enthusiasts from around the country came to sell their wares and acquire rare versions of the cuddly toys at the Thistle Hotel.
The invasion of weeds such as horehound and stemless thistles is a continuing management problem.
It attacks the thistle's leaves and stem, forming orange-brown lumps called pustules.
One of the Cape's most numerous and widespread songbirds, goldfinches delight in dining on dandelion seeds, thistles, and weed seeds found amongst the beach grass.

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