Snowy herons skimmed low over the water, and choruses of warbling frogs emanated from clusters of lily pads. |
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He did not mention the Great Wall, the bounded lotus or lily feet of Chinese women and the tea houses in Yangzhou and Hangzhou. |
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The three flowers to be voted upon included the California poppy, the Mariposa lily, and the Matilija poppy. |
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The bulb of the camas lily, which grows primarily in wet meadows, was a principal plant food. |
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Aloe vera resembles a cactus, but is actually a perennial succulent which belongs to the lily family. |
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A perennial in the lily family, the purple amole grows from a bulb and produces bluish-purple flowers. |
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It is a member of the lily family and is closely related to onions and leeks despite being very different in both taste and appearance. |
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Asparagus is a member of the lily family and closely related to onions and leeks. |
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People call it the leopard lily because the orange background color of the flower is covered with reddish-brown spots. |
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Many featured floral and botanical patterns, often the lily or the acanthus leaf. |
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They land on lily pads in the pond and frogs are ribbiting and bouncing all around. |
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They visited a lily garden where they had morning tea, and an apiary where they had afternoon tea. |
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You can dig up and divide your lily of the valley anytime between October and March to give to your friends. |
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A folktale tells the story of a lily of the valley, a fragrant spring flower. |
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Any ideas on how I might inhibit the growth of my lily of the valley without doing harm to surrounding grass and shrubs? |
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Fellow Finnish button-accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen supplies a peaceful closing tune named after Finland's national flower, the lily of the valley. |
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Lady Tamara carried a bouquet of garden roses in white and pale cream, white jasmine stephanotis and lily of the valley with myrtle leaves. |
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Catherine Walker C also has leafy top notes, combined with jasmine, lily of the valley and black pepper. |
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I fall face first into the water to the growls and scare a two-foot alligator resting on a lily pad. |
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This is an adjustable, silver-plated ring with a plastic, magnifying dome that features a miniature photograph of lily pads. |
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A splash movement flitted out from under the lily pad and a streak of orange made its way to another. |
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Jade laughed and turned away, getting a closer look at the river plants and lily pads. |
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After a bit of pulling from both ends, the hook came out, and I retrieved a large lily pad instead of a carp. |
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Ponds that are home to water lilies and lily pads are also home to frogs and other amphibious creatures. |
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I went and cut the lily pads back as much as I could, especially the crisp brown ones. |
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Is there anything you can recommend that won't be harmful to anything but the lily pads? |
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Or use the cauldron as a water garden and grow horsetail, a water lily or other aquatics. |
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The lily has always had strong symbolic value, though its meaning and symbolism have changed through the ages. |
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Some rivals of the purple lilac included the buttercup, goldenrod, Mayflower, wood lily, purple aster, apple blossom, and the evening primrose. |
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Here and there are patches of American white water lily and Engelmann's arrowhead. |
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These plants belong to the arum lily family, as does the better-known tropical root crop taro. |
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I am wearing my school uniform of royal blue edged with silver and a lily shaped badge on the jacket to represent my school. |
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A member of the lily family, asparagus is also related to onions, leeks and garlic. |
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The plant, known as turkeybeard, or mountain asphodel, is a rare species of lily. |
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One, sabadilla, is made from a lily and works as a contact and stomach poison for numerous insects. |
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The ingestion of azalea, oleander, castor bean, sago palm, Easter lily or yew plant material by an animal can be fatal. |
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Apart from the American Indians, the Japanese make some use of lily bulbs in traditional dishes. |
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Underneath you could plant Mahonia japonica, a handsome all-year round shrub, with lily of the valley scented yellow flowers in early winter. |
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Another similar plant I discovered recently is Virginia bunchflower, also in the lily family. |
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Some tribes boiled or steamed the large and fleshy roots of ballhead waterleaf with the bulbs of yellow glacier lily. |
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Lilium candidum, the madonna lily is the oldest known lily, and was most likely the first flower to have been used as a cut flower. |
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I'm of European origin, and one thing I can say is that the Madonna lily is extremely common there, barely a garden without it. |
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In the shallow marshes near the river grows a unique type of yellow water lily. |
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In damp places, look out for the beautiful tall, pink Martagon lily with its maroon spots. |
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At the rear of the garden is a large lily pool, backed with a pergola laden with gnarled wisteria vines. |
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I got home mid-morning from my errands to discover that the water lily has opened its first flower. |
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Also called the red spider lily or red hurricane lily, it's topped with a complex, bright-red flower with many very long stamens. |
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These worked well, colouring our subject's lily white skin with a light Mediterranean tan while leaving all the other colours in the shot true. |
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Jordan reached out a hand tentatively to finger the large, vibrant tiger lily that lay amongst some greens in a small corsage box. |
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We walked to the back of the garden, and once again, I found myself surrounded by my favorite flower, the tiger lily. |
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I looked at my desk and saw a beautiful orange tiger lily, my favorite flower. |
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The tiger lily has played a very important role in the development of the Asiatic hybrids and other lilies. |
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We tied napkins with beargrass and embellished them with lily pad-like Shortia, commonly sold as galax leaves. |
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Treating lily bulbs with cytokinin hormones can mean early flowers and more of them. |
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Good though the matching of crumbly, flaking croissant with hot sticky apples and cold, slightly soured cream is, you may want to gild the lily. |
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The installations were accompanied by small nature paintings, a tangled root clump in one, a water lily in another. |
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It's a gloriously vibrant water lily, with creamy colors and almost infinite deepness in detail and tone. |
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The bridesmaids and flower girl each had a single white lily fixed in their hair, to match the bride's bouquet. |
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Her hair was pulled into two buns at the topsides of her head and a water lily was placed in the middle of them. |
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Graham was dismayed to see how much the grass had grown but delighted to see the bloom on the water lily. |
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Crystal slowly made her way over to the pond and reached for a water lily just as she heard her voice being called. |
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The lakes are clear with an average depth of about 4ft with a whole range of different types of water lily. |
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Declines in other plants, such as the northeastern trout lily, have also been anecdotally linked with exotic earthworm invasions, he said. |
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Further along the same bed is a group of Erythronium revolutum, the American trout lily, which has also been gradually increasing each year. |
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But on his acreage you can be just an instant from trillium, twin leaf, and trout lily. |
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A favourite flower for the bouquet's centre was the amazon lily, which had white waxy blooms. |
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The three propagation methods above will produce a new lily plant identical to the parent. |
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If your pond is at least three feet deep, you can experiment with wild rice, water lotus, and water lily. |
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Black beans, lily buds, leafy greens, wood ear fungus, beanthread noodles, Sichuan peppercorns the Chinese larder is there. |
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Also for containers or sheltered, well-drained sunny spaces, the less hardy gladiolus, nerine and Belladonna lily will look exotic. |
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In shady parts of the garden, lily of the valley, woodruff, bluebells and variegated honesty are in flower. |
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The feathers on its underbelly lightly brushed the lily pads on the surface. |
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A main disease concern for the lily grower is botrytis, or gray mold, which can be seen on the leaves, Paul says. |
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I like the grassy foliage and orange-yellow torchlike blooms of kniphofia, aka red-hot poker and torch lily. |
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Be especially watchful of young children around lily ponds, wading pools, large puddles, buckets and large containers of any sort. |
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Fly-pollinated plants, like the skunk cabbage of North America or the stinking corpse lily of Madagascar, typically have quite pungent odors. |
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It's just a matter of timing your visit to coincide with when the lily is in flower. |
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The aloe vera plant is grown typically in dry areas and is actually a member of the lily family, although it has a more cactus like appearance. |
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Your gaze rushes along the angel's body, down the outstretched arm, and along the stem of the lily he is offering the Virgin. |
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The tulip is followed in popularity by the daffodil and other narcissi, the gladiolus, the lily and the crocus. |
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The Jacanas are totally adapted to wetland habitats with floating vegetation like lotus, lily, hydrilla and wetland rushes. |
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Two plants that thrive on very little water are the impala lily and the reed stem orchid. |
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They, in turn, supported a vetro a reticello basin in which blown-glass winged dragons clustered around a tall glass trumpet lily spouting water. |
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Nonephemerals that bloom during the summer or fall are Canada lily, false hellebore, and species of aster, goldenrod, and sunflower. |
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Grassed mounds, ornamental trees and a lily pond are planned to complement the serene ambience. |
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Many summer-flowering lily varieties are quite hardy and can be planted in either fall or spring. |
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Some lovely choices for wedding flowers include azalea, calla, hydrangea, moth orchid, Oriental lily, rhododendron, and rose. |
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When we came around the other side of the pond, someone spotted a jacana walking across the lily pads. |
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The tomb sits alone in an arched alcove to the right of the main altar of the central nave, a leafy potted lily behind it and a small red candle burning at the front. |
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The trumpet shaped flowers are widely accepted as being a symbol of the Orange Order, and members wear the lily with pride on their sashes during marches. |
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Otto Brunfels, a Carthusian monk who later became a physician, recommended the healing qualities of the lily in his 1530 book, Herbarum Vivae Eicones. |
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Within the park, visitors can meet some unique trees and plants such as, per example, oaks, cedars, oleanders, arbutus, and the Alpine lily lilium cholcedonium. |
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Among them are arrow arum, bull-tongue arrowhead, pickerelweed, water lettuce, white water lily, yellow water lily, and the invasive alligator weed. |
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Aquatic plants also will be featured in the conservatory, Moran said, including a vibrant flowering purple tropical water lily on display during a recent tour. |
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By and by, the new dragonfly lighted happily on a lily pad to rest. |
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The photo shows lily pads and pink waterlilies floating on the water. |
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The wetter areas support meadows containing Missouri goldenrod, false toadflax, golden-glow, Indian paintbrush, Mariposa lily, death camas, and prairie smoke. |
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Although pennywort usually grows in shallow water, rooted in soil, it seems to do well just floating in our pond, with its round leaves resembling tiny water lily pads. |
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It was pretty small, with a few lily pads and cattails scattered around. |
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You can illuminate your garden with a selection of wooden or metal lanterns, colour-changing lily pad lights or bright, citronella bucket candles. |
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There was a small pool with floating candles and lily pads before me. |
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In fact, one of its early English language common names was sword lily. |
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Wild rice could have been found in the deeper waters of the backwater sloughs along with white water lily, American lotus, arrowleaf, duckweeds, and pondweed. |
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He approached a vase of flowers and pulled on the stem of the white lily. |
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Fill it about two-thirds with water, then add a dwarf water lily. |
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The peace lily is an indoor plant and will not tolerate frosty conditions. |
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The banks are high with wild orchid, gunnera and water lily. |
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He was dressed in his best tux, and carried two ornate wrist corsages, an orchid and a calla lily, and a bouquet of pink lilies, decorated with baby's breath. |
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Tracey Gough added to the beauty of the gardens by having a lily pond built and having rhododendrons and azaleas and many more exotic trees planted in the gardens. |
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The front plate depicts a heron on a field of lily pads and cattails. |
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At least for now, Modern Family is taking the less-is-more approach, and resisting turning it into The lily Show. |
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There is Britney Spears in a neon-pink ball gown on a lily pad cooing for the camera. |
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It is interesting to note, however, that one extant water lily, Barclaya rotundifolia, may have reinvaded wet, shady, disturbed forest understory habitats. |
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The seal on the door was a serpent dragon lying down in a water lily. |
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Where this milk fell to earth, a milk-white lily spontaneously grew. |
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I may also throw in a packet or two of home-made honey-nut granola, some fresh veggies from my organic garden, a pot of herbs and an arum lily bulb each. |
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Where space is at a premium Lysichiton camstchatcensis, the white arum lily, is smaller in habit and spectacular when planted near a pond or a stream. |
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For a second the lily was enveloped in a milk-white foam, which disappeared, leaving the fluid opalescent. |
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The Snowdon lily and the Welsh poppy are neck-and-neck in Caernarvonshire. |
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Another very hardy summer bulbous plant is the zephyranthes lily. |
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Situated at the edge of Loch Dunvegan, the garden is extensive with a parterre, and woodland areas planted with Himalayan blue poppies and the Himalayan lily Cardiocrinum. |
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These lily pads will soon be gone, replaced by layers of ice and snow. |
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Following are simple professional tips from the Netherlands Flower Bulb Information Center in New York City on how to turn any lily flower arrangement into a showstopper. |
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People with arrhythmias can try the herbs lily of the valley and Cactus grandiflorus, but they should do so only under the supervision of a physician. |
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He uses a sidelight to pick out the ridges and hollows of a Calla lily. |
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The shade from the lily pads and the maple was sufficient to keep down the slimy blanket weed that was threatening to fill the pond earlier in the season. |
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During the breeding season, reproductively active males establish territories around the underside of structures, such as snags, lily pads, and introduced nesting substrates. |
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Suddenly the old Chinese woman whom I'd walked past on the sidewalk half an hour earlier moved across the window, a tall sprig of sword lily in one hand. |
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The Minnesota dwarf trout lily is a spring ephemeral that blooms before the forest canopy spreads and blocks sunlight to the ground. |
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Opposite is the emblem of the Gospel, a maiden, brightly looking heavenwards, her head endiademed, the budding lily in her hand. |
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Thick vegetation, lily pads, weed beds and any sort of cover is a typical summer home for a largie. |
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The Lantern Lobby features flowing oak columns forming a vaulted ceiling, imitating an arum lily. |
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In botany, an example of an ice age relict plant population is the Snowdon lily, notable as being precariously rare in Wales. |
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Some have expressed concern that the warming climate will cause the lily to die out in Great Britain. |
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They willingly eat the berries of mountain ash, lily of the valley, bilberries, blueberries and cowberry. |
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On the right side of the flag of Saskatchewan overlapping both green and gold halves is the western red lily, the provincial floral emblem. |
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The Easter lily, a symbol of the resurrection, traditionally decorates the chancel area of churches on this day and for the rest of Eastertide. |
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Among the numerous flowers and shrubs are hibiscus, flame lily, snake lily, spider lily, leonotus, cassia, tree wisteria and dombeya. |
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The Aztec lily, Blood lily, Daylily, Foxtail lily, Lily-of-the-valley and Zephyr lily are not true lilies. |
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The Jacanas were observed in the vegetated part of the lake at the three sites and so were the lily trotters. |
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For an anthurium and lily bouquet, prices range from pounds 50 for a standard size and pounds 70 for a deluxe selection. |
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On the occasion of the New Year, other bouquets made of lily, pink roses, anthurium, emerald fillers also delight your near and dear on New Year. |
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Rain lily is listed as a threatened species in the Preservation of Native Flora of Florida Act. |
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Boston fern, lady palm, bamboo palm, peace lily, corn, weeping fig and florists mum. |
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Among all the so-called common herbs are interesting plants such as Cancer sage, Blackberry lily, Jobe's tears, Lady's bedstraw, and Mullein. |
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A common name for the little wild daffodil Narcissus pseudonarcissus, which is in full flower now, is the Lent lily. |
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A common name for the little wild daffodil, Narcissus pseudonarcissus, in full flower now, is the Lent lily. |
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In the California section, it was a pleasure to see the leopard lily described. |
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This strategy is no more resolute than a lily pad, and our generals know it. |
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Jumping from one lily pad to another is easier when you leap to a kindred pad in the same pond, industry or occupation. |
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Sometime later, despite thick lily pad entanglement, he landed his first ever 5-pound bass. |
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Fortunately she rescues Bug just in time, floating on a lily pad in the lake. |
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Now we're sending in tiny groups, a few hundred at a time, to live on lily pads. |
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He caught it in 4 feet of water dropping off to 8 feet, at the edge of shoreline lily pads. |
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A cardoon and macleaya cordate add structure and height while the serene atmosphere is reflected in a lily pond hopping with frogs. |
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A previously unknown species of sea lily has turned up at seamounts more than 1,600 meters below the waves at sites off Antarctica. |
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Top air-cleaners include philodendron, Boston fern, peace lily and English ivy. |
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Red orchids, Dutch calla lily, variegated lily grass and calathea are arranged in a glass container. |
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For a moment, consider plants that are ordinarily recommended for shade gardens, such as azalea, calla lily and impatiens. |
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One of three table settings will feature calla lily arrangements by Mark's Garden in Sherman Oaks. |
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Blackfly are attracted to nasturtiums, caterpillars often attack canary creeper and lilies are prone to lily beetle. |
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Also, he was holding in his hand a thin strip of spattania ribbon that was as vibrantly yellow as the gunebo lily. |
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Erythronium 'Joanna', trout lily, above, and Anemone nemorosa 'Vestal', left ask Carol QWE WANT to grow a cordon or fan-trained apple. |
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She knows where every tiny bluish clump of rarephacelia can be found, where every fragile yellow trout lily grows. |
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The martagon is a typical Turk's cap lily with stems that are up to a metre tall and a plethora of slightly mucky crimsonpurple flowers. |
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Each bridesmaid carried a tussie-mussie of miniature yellow calla lilies with lily and bear grass. |
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One person who tuned into my story was Matt Creed, the director of lily. |
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Garlic is a member of the lily family and is rich in sulfur compounds including thiosulfinates, sulfoxides, and dithiins. |
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When was the last time you considered underplanting shrubs with lily of the valley to form a carpet of fragrant white or pink bloom? |
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The sophisticated lily beret has won the young Royal praise for a clever choice of a flattering and unfussy hat. |
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The top note of sweet orange is complimented by the aroma of lily of the valley and soft rose wrapped in a marine accord. |
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Clark also identified trout lily for those asking about it and said the area was one of the few in Petersham where ostrich fern would grow. |
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The plants are not native to Oregon, but the Darlingtonia californica, or cobra lily, is in the same family and is found on the Oregon Coast. |
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The day lily maintains a blue and yellow partnership with the advent of summer campanulas such as persicifolia. |
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So what makes the day lily the number one perennial both in Britain and America? |
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The 2014 Easter lily contribution total is expected to be triple that amount. |
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They are nocturnal plants, which means their flowers don't open until late afternoon, although funnily enough, their common name is day lily. |
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So far, seedlings of five species of Trilliums, two of Paeony and one of lily have emerged. |
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I fear I'm in danger of gilding the lily 6 Should I plant my lily bulbs now or wait a while? |
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I think it's gilding the lily a touch, given the sweetness of the dessert itself, but it's up to you entirely. |
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I like mine with mustard, pickle and raw onion, but Colette gilds the lily with sliced tomato and grilled mushrooms. |
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Frankly, it is not surprising that the ambassador is trying to gild the lily and dampen down concerns that are very real. |
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Producers Max Martin and Ryan Tedder help gild the lily with beats to bolster the catchy but often anaemic tunes. |
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Thankfully, the BBC doesn''t, and decided to gild the lily by recruiting Michaela Strachan for the new run. |
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There is in fact a tree Liriodendron called a Tulip Tree from lirion meaning a lily for the shape of the flower and dendron meaning tree. |
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This hardy, exotic Peruvian lily produces clusters of orange flowers blotched with buttercup yellow from mid to late summer. |
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Commonly known as Peruvian Lily they produce an astounding array of clustered lily shaped flowers throughout the summer months. |
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And Alstroemeria Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, a Peruvian lily, is perfect for a sunny border. |
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This was also the case for phenethyl alcohol, a minor component in the oil from lily of the valley. |
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Further, in three eutrophic ponds it was observed that algal or lily pad growth was very dense. |
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Of a similar ilk to the peace lily, isthe flamingo flower, whose leathery spathes in red, pink or white actually look artificial. |
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The older vase of the two is the one shaped like a lily, known as a floriform vase.This floriform vase, however, is distinctive to Kralik. |
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The impressionist painter Claude Monet modeled parts of his garden in Giverny after Japanese elements, such as the bridge over the lily pond, which he painted numerous times. |
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To complete the picture, plant the yellow day lily hemerocallis flava, which will complete with any other border plant for the length of time the flowers last. |
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The Easter lily is probably the most popular plant associated with Easter. |
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Many have marbled leaves giving them the vernacular name of trout lily. |
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Effect of accel on the postharvest vase life of Easter lily. |
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Many have marbled leaves, giving them the vernacular name of trout lily. |
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Nardoo, lily, acacia and cycad seeds were collected and ground into flour. |
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Please, cat owners, be aware that the tinniest nibble of a leaf or a speck of lily pollen on their fur, which they then will lick and ingest, can cause their death. |
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She carried a single long-stemmed calla lily wrapped in satin. |
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It is the white Martagon lily and it makes a stunning picture set against the dark greens of a shady garden or an evocative pastoral scene in a more open setting. |
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Eric Bristow's Cockney sage-like charm has made for very watchable telly, especially when he had to muck about on giant lily pads to win stars for their evening dinner. |
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McAvoy and Blunt are both sweet but the only vocal performance that stands out is Jensen as an overly dramatic amphibian, looking for someone to share her lily pad. |
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The handling of the standard model is superb anyway but with the dynamics pack on it just gilds the lily by giving the car's setup a greater degree of variation. |
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We saw wedged-tailed eagles scouting for wallabies, bluewinged kookaburras perched on telegraph wires, and delicate jacanas pacing carefully across lily pad-choked waterways. |
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The lily and its house led directly to Paxton's design for the Crystal Palace and he later cited the huge ribbed floating leaves as a key inspiration. |
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Like the calla lily, the zephyr lily craves moist, fast-draining soil. |
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Whereas the blue African lily, Agapanthus can also be planted in April this it is often difficult to establish, so probably better to buy pot grown plants later in spring. |
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Say so, don't gild the lily, know when you've reached perfection. |
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One of Robbie's favourite patio plants is agapanthus, the African lily, a perennial whose trumpet-shaped flowers stand erect above strappy leaves. |
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Then again, flavoring whiskey is seen as gilding the lily to purists. |
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With a car this colourful, that would surely be gilding the lily. |
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As we passed through the quadrangle the church was glowing more brightly than a pearl, like a lily in strong sunlight, in spite of all the scaffolding and hugger-mugger. |
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As they entered now, it seemed a blaze of roses and carnations, though one recognized in a moment the presence of the lily, the heliotrope, and the stock. |
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In this environment, glacier lily bulbs roots are major food sources. |
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