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How to use foliage in a sentence

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As the tulips fade, the lilies take over, growing taller and taller to mask the dying foliage of the tulips.
Large populations of bagworms can strip plants of their foliage and eventually cause them to die.
Previous investigators have noted that the folivorous, dusky-footed wood rat brings fresh, green foliage into its stickhouse.
I like the grassy foliage and orange-yellow torchlike blooms of kniphofia, aka red-hot poker and torch lily.
The only green that remained was the spreading, tired, dark foliage of the occasional live oak tree standing sentinel in sere pastureland.
The foliage is lacy, and attractive even when the flowers are not in bloom.
The leonine head has a grimacing, tooth-filled mouth from which issue stems with pellet decoration ending in foliage scrolls.
The dying bulb foliage will be covered later in the season when the shrub regrows.
If foliage on azaleas, camellias, citrus, and gardenias is yellowish with green veins, the plants need iron.
Gloxinias are perfect pot plants as both their foliage and colorful blossoms are exceptionally showy.
The branches seem to be laid out flat, like fern fronds, while it is the colouring that gives the foliage variety of appearance and depth.
Both the bright red adults and their larvae can strip the foliage from lilies and fritillaries in days.
This shrub offers burgundy-green foliage and hot pink, fringy blooms primarily in late winter-spring.
Many contemporary interiors dictate the use of stylised arrangements of flowers and foliage which lack frilliness and intricate detail.
When the flowers begin to fade and before a seed pod forms, cut the flower head, being careful to leave the foliage to die back naturally.
Dense foliage in irrigated winter wheat may favor development of different foliar and leaf spotting diseases.
The plants of the second class had in addition one fully developed foliage leaf.
Rhizome bracts and culm sheaths are protective and supportive, while foliage leaf blades are responsible for photosynthesis.
The long fimbriae of the foliage leaf sheaths also help to distinguish this species from others in southeastern Brazil.
Martin cleverly used foliage plants that complemented and harmonised with the bronze.
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Lots of the plants had scented foliage and gave off a lovely perfume as we walked among them.
The intermediate states were characterized by nodes associated with foliage leaves.
The foliage is a bluish green while the flowers open white, with a mass of yellow stamens.
The green foliage bent deep towards the ground, out of respect for the snow.
At the centre of each flower are grey-blue stamen and the plant forms a compact mass of foliage and flowers.
There is also a plan to arrange signs attractively and plant more foliage along the beach.
The trees that flowered began to shed their foliage in December and were completely bare by January.
He's seen roses with good flowers but bad foliage, good foliage but bad flowers.
Spent flower stems can be removed as well as dead leaves but leave healthy foliage to die back naturally.
He added that the council may be able to plant foliage to make the rocks look better.
To avoid plain green foliage syndrome it is worth experimenting with varied foliage plants.
The big leathery leaves of the hostas are an excellent foil for the fernlike foliage of the astilbes.
Their fine foliage can intercept tiny water droplets and fog as it blows over the plateau.
A posy of flowers may be hard to manage now, but there is a mass of evergreen foliage that can easily be fashioned into Christmas wreaths.
The flowering shrubs will be planted in areas where there is enough sunlight and in shady areas foliage will be planted.
If you are planting a flower bed, at least make a rough map showing by location the colors and foliage types you'd like to display.
On the sides, long-eared creatures utter foliage from their mouths, and more stems issue from two heads at the rear.
But, as Adam broke through the line of fleshy foliage it didn't take him long to find who was waiting for it.
Although deciduous in cooler climates, here blueberries retain their attractive coppery foliage until pruning time in winter.
Green with bamboos, pines, laurel, and maples, the place invited refugees, partly because the foliage seemed a center of coolness and life.
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If his attention fixes upon the rich and varied foliage of the ancient forest, it is to single out particular specimens of trees and plants.
Although the plumy flowers are beautiful, the form, color, and texture of miscanthus foliage is quite striking by itself.
Bulbs can also be interplanted in such a way that the summer perennials just coming into leaf will mask the dying foliage of the spring bulbs.
The sedilia form an ensemble with the piscina, tomb of Christ, and patron's tomb, all carved with foliage and figures.
Shrubs lower than one metre are recommended, or taller trees with no foliage below two metres, so there is a clear field of vision.
All of these foliage forms are planate pinnate fronds, frequently with open venation.
Because of foliage and the three-dimensional arrangement of fruits on an infructescence, it was impossible to spray all fruits evenly.
On the other hand, a planting that combines large, tropical-looking leaves with fine-textured, ferny foliage will have pizzazz.
Re-pot greenhouse ferns and other foliage plants as they begin to come into growth.
The wispy green or bronze foliage of fennel will add a nice contrast to my other potpourri plants.
New foliage covered with indumentum which remains on the undersides of the leafs.
It was like coming upon one cameo after another of large polished foliage framed in smoky clouds.
This focus on foliage gives the scenteds little in common with the familiar bedding geranium and its big red flowers.
How do I get rid of these annoying pests without destroying my other foliage or the oak tree?
On warm nights they have begun nibbling the freshly emerging foliage of my autumn-flowering colchicums.
These hatch out in moist potting mix and can be treated by immersing the pot and spraying the foliage in a solution of pyrethrum insecticide.
The following is a list of suggested annuals, perennials and foliage plants.
If, on the other hand, you plan on selling potted plants, hanging baskets, tropical foliage or flats, a greenhouse becomes a necessity.
This past week in the forest park, the fiery foliage set against cobalt skies was a sight to behold.
Fresh new leaves will soon begin to grow and form a clump of foliage for the rest of the summer.
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For example, the wispy foliage of cosmos will engulf spiky salvia flowers and is a contrast to the rounded leaves of pelargoniums.
I happened to be idly looking out my window, enviously eyeing up the copious foliage growing in my neighbours' flat.
The ice plant's lime green foliage contrasts strongly with prickly silver mats of neighboring pinks.
As I walked along the paths that interweave amongst the foliage I came upon something I had never seen there before.
This nocturnal hutia feeds on roots, bark, shoots, fruit, and foliage of many different plants.
If foliage of azaleas, camellias, citrus, gardenias, and others is yellowish with green veins, the plants need iron.
This tour de force of silver, gold, and enamel, more than three feet tall, is bristling with foliage and flowers and laden with symbolism.
Good foliage plants have particular relevance when grown indoors as house plants.
It is ideal for growing in a mixed planting of hostas, siberian iris, and other good foliage plants.
The camera pans continuously over stones and foliage in a watery landscape that seems lush and full.
When large populations are present they can lower yields by reducing plant vigor and increasing sun scald of fruit through foliage loss.
If it is to be a summer border, full of foliage and flower in a sunny and sheltered spot, the world is your oyster.
That's when the foliage of many trees, shrubs, and vines starts to turn brilliant shades such as port, cherry red, and bonfire orange.
However, the gradual loss of the foliage from your plant suggests that it has been overwatered.
Likewise, gypsy moths preferentially feed on oak foliage compared to foliage of red or striped maples.
Although grasses lack the large and colorful flowers of many ornamentals, their beauty is found in their foliage textures, colors, and forms.
Surround a garden bench with heliotrope or aromatic foliage plants like scented geraniums.
These helichrysums are grown for their soft decorative foliage and produce masses of the stuff within weeks of being planted out.
The winter heath is blooming heavily and the summer heather is standing erect with foliage in gorgeous hues of bronze, coral and red.
In reality organic potato producers frequently have to remove potato haulms early because of foliage blight.
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The trees had incredibly thick foliage that formed knee-deep, half rotted carpets of fallen leaves.
The toughness of the foliage and the plethora of carnivorous plants are further evidence of a scarcity of nutrients.
If gray foliage plays a major role in your garden, stick to cool-colored flowers.
The foliage is green, the water a golden caramel, and the final shot sunset will take your breath away.
The foliage of the Cape gooseberry is velvety, heart-shaped, and may reach 6 in long.
Primula foliage is still as crisp as lettuce, the creeping phlox looks as good as new, and so does the evergreen candytuft.
Its clouds of white lace cap flowers in summer and its purple foliage with drooping clusters of berries in autumn make it a winter garden staple.
The winter-flowering carneas and the summer-flowering callunas provide foliage and floral interest throughout the year.
Recent introductions of foliage heucheras from Oregon nurseryman and plant breeder Dan Heims are making a big splash.
The train emerges from the foliage and comes to a stand for the crossing gates to be opened.
Dense shade can also occur under trees with dense foliage such as Norway maples and some conifers.
Both powdery mildew and downy mildew often infect squash plants as autumn nights grow cooler and dew keeps the foliage moist through the night.
The cherry tree bushed out so much that it produced very little fruit, but the foliage itself had a pleasing abundance to it.
Forging a symbiosis with the force that rules their world, some are viridescent, mimicking the foliage that surrounds them.
This protects the foliage from cold and wind damage as even the walk between shop and car can be fatal to tender plants.
The organism destroys turf foliage by invading the leaf mesophyll cells, filling them with hundreds of small spindle-shaped cells.
This lovely evergreen sports dense foliage bearing spikes of dark red flower buds during late autumn.
The grass should be cut often and the dead foliage taken away every other day.
Always cut as little foliage as possible when cutting flowers from your bulbous plants.
His distinctive brushwork is particularly evident in representations of foliage and tree trunks.
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They produced several types of foliage all characterized by pinnate leaves with open dichotomous venation.
My husband has added many pots of flowers and foliage to the existing garden.
Plants with fascinating leaf shapes and variegated foliage can turn your shade garden from a drab, dark place to an intriguing cool retreat.
If you select foliage plants with variegated or lighter colored leaves, they will prefer brighter light.
But often the songsters can be difficult to locate as they flit restlessly in the foliage of a windbreak of lofty cypresses.
The foliage of a tree provides a set of natural pinhole cameras, producing crescent images during the partial phase of a solar eclipse.
Most are tall, nondeciduous softwoods with pale smooth bark and foliage that's light, sparse, and usually blue-green.
If a little soft soap is dissolved with the mixture, it adheres much better to the foliage and is not so easily washed off by rain.
Prune as needed to keep the exuberant foliage from casting unwanted shade on neighboring plants.
The foliage is delightful, and hummingbirds enjoy sipping nectar from its smaller flowers.
As seasons pass from cherry blossoms and summer beaches to fall foliage and winter snows, their love becomes stronger and more enduring.
It's very special because the foliage is a lovely smokey brown colour, which contrasts delightfully with the apricot yellow flowers.
For great foliage and color contrast, plant yellow nasturtiums around the outer rim of the planter.
Mix in foliage plants such as dusty miller, ferns, liriope, or dwarf nandina.
It has a deep magenta color that contrasts well with the more dominant green and gray foliage colors of the garden.
He presented what seemed to be two unfocused photos of foliage in red and black, respectively.
The foliage is a striking greyish-green with purple undertones and the small, pretty flowers are vivid pink.
The deep green fine-textured foliage of mums is remarkably aromatic, lending a distinctive ambience to the containers in which they are planted.
Though their foliage is grass-like, the blue-eyed grasses belong to the iris family not the grass family.
After I'd had my fill of blowpipes, dripping foliage and poisonous frogs I flicked through to an article on peanut farming.
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The pines are now taller and blacker and the glossy mounded foliage of native shrubs covers the banks of cuttings more densely.
These easy-to-grow plants form mounds of foliage studded with flowers, sometimes so tightly packed that the leaves are barely visible.
The first signs of growth are in late winter when tight buds of foliage make a neat mound on the surface of the soil.
Intensely fragrant, waxy white blossoms emerge on stems as tall as 3 feet above grassy basal foliage and tuberous roots.
Harvest herb roots including bloodroot, chicory, ginseng, and golden seal in the fall, after the foliage fades.
Hibiscus, citrus, silk oaks, bottle trees, pines etc. all drop at least some of their older foliage this time of year.
Illuminated only by moonlight, pale flowers and foliage add a dreamy, ethereal quality to the garden.
If I see plants with yellowing foliage I have to stop and ask myself why the leaves are turning.
One of the few drawbacks of daffodils and tulips is the foliage after the flowers have gone over.
Plant it in combination with late flowering tulips, which will pierce the dense foliage to form an impressive contrast.
A few white fairy lights can add a sprinkle of magic among the winter foliage of evergreen trees and shrubs.
The nest is typically located in dense foliage on a horizontal branch near the trunk of a tree, or in a vertical fork.
The shock of watering or misting a hot plant can cause foliage burn or leaf drop.
Larvae died with virus symptoms after feeding on treated foliage and the leaf bioassay was easier to count than the apple bioassay.
They bring to mind trees, flowers and branching foliage breaking into bloom before our eyes.
Both traversed the forest swiftly and easily, scurrying over rocks and against foliage with utmost grace.
Now, in summer the openings are free of mullions or transoms and frame the lush foliage beyond.
As he started in rearranging the foliage on the wreath he signaled the waiting transmigrator operator to telegraph the bottle back to The Ship.
Unusual foliage such as ornamental cabbages can make a bold statement, especially if highlighted by accessories such as solar bell jars.
The rugged foliage is a complete contrast to the delicate, frothy pink flowers and sets them off to perfection.
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Pink daffodils are set off to perfection by perennials with foliage in supporting colors.
The wetlands dense foliage has the ability to handle heavy metals, like mercury, zinc, nickel and copper.
Plant up your pots, containers and window boxes with evergreen foliage plants such as senecio, ivy and skimmia to give you winter interest.
Bitter melon has climbing foliage that resembles that of its cousin, the cucumber.
Carefully dislodge the pests with your thumbnail or a knife, or wash mealybugs from foliage using tepid water about once a week.
A scream arose from the foliage and a thud was heard as a French soldier hit the hard ground.
Walking on land, they pick up food with the nail of their bill or strip seed heads and foliage with the bill's edge.
Plant in clusters or drifts, by plant type, or by flower and foliage color.
With a myriad of tones, textures, sizes and shapes, a garden planted purely with foliage plants can be an exciting place to be.
Mixed with other, deep maroon flowers and streaks of grey foliage plants, scarlet blooms drift through borders.
Its fern-like foliage provides a soft background for smaller sun-loving petunias, daisies, marigolds and others.
As this correspondent observed last week, the forests have re-grown and the erstwhile bald hills are now covered in luxurious foliage and flora.
Every couple of months, set the plant in the shower and spray the foliage with tepid water to wash off dust.
Yellowing, twisted foliage with tiny webs appears on susceptible species including gardenias, scheffleras, ivy, and roses.
Flowers rise above the foliage on a scape, and, as the name implies, last for only a day.
While babul is actually an evergreen, it produces fresh foliage every spring and so is classified with mesquite as deciduous.
Fruit flavor is related to the amount of foliage on the plants, so avoid excessive pruning for best results.
Limit future infections by keeping excess moisture off the foliage in the autumn and winter.
Christmas trees are essentially a foliage crop, and luxuriant foliage with good color is a definite asset when trees are sold.
The lustrous black lacquer surface is embellished with a pattern of foliage and birds.
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The classic perennial lupines, with flower spikes that tower above their foliage like colorful candles, just got better.
The poem's title arises from its final, extraordinary image of a female luna moth hanging in foliage outside a country church.
In summer its foliage matches the silvery and wine tones of painted ferns, and complements burgundy astrantias.
The contrast of their foliage with that of ferns, astilbe, solomon seal and epimedium further enhances the woodland surroundings.
Trim up overhanging foliage from surrounding plants and simultaneously cut back any stray grass runners before they take root in adjacent beds.
He mixes succulents with plants that have foliage of an entirely different nature, such as asparagus fern, coleus, or curly parsley.
By the fire doors another couple sat, sheltered beneath the foliage of a large, artificial rubber plant.
Wipe the foliage clean, if necessary, and if you wish, rub a little vegetable oil on the leaves to heighten the gloss.
Some of the leaves at the base of the plant are almost black but newer foliage shows no sign of this colouring as yet.
Good foliage plants for fillers are low-growing artemisias, dusty miller, and golden, purple, or tricolor sage.
Around the border is a series of panels and roundels with birds and animals amidst scrolling foliage and with a coat of arms.
Gardens smell different now, the pungency of aromatic foliage becomes more prominent with less competition from perfumed flowers.
Spraying leaves often with tepid water helps increase humidity and keep the foliage clean and healthy.
They also forage in shallow water for aquatic invertebrates and catch insects on foliage or near the surface of water.
And luxuriant foliage is no longer just apple green but ranges from purplish blue to green splashed with white.
In this study common ringtail possums appear to show poor regulatory ability when feeding on foliage diets.
The huge flowers were out, with white, pink and orange petals set against the green of the foliage and the blue of the lagoon.
For filling the gaps you could add wallflowers for their good foliage and sweet-smelling flowers.
Red mud paths dissect the vibrant green of paddy fields, the dense foliage of coconut, jackfruit, cashew, areca nut and bamboo plantations.
After the flowers fade, the green foliage provides shady relief from the hot summer sun and forms a lush canopy for outdoor dining.
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In Texas' mild winter climate, sometimes only the lemongrass foliage dies back while the roots remain healthy.
As the flowers die the stems become woody and the blooms dry while the foliage dies back and the plant takes on its winter form.
Four tonnes of foliage is needed to build each of the 16 fences that feature in the three-day race meeting.
Mix well and spray thoroughly over both sides of the foliage and onto the offending pest.
A single pair of leaves is the sum total of the foliage that welwitschias produce in their lifetime.
After the flowers of spring bulbs fade, the remaining foliage is left to wilt and die back.
Often losing sight of its prey, Portia spends twenty minutes detouring through the foliage to reach the optimal vantage point.
If you haven't pruned give it a prune, and remove foliage but not new buds.
We measured canopy closure, number of juniper and hardwood trees, and foliage cover of junipers and hardwoods.
Grasses, sedges and bamboos are grown mostly for their foliage and anything that enhances that effect is worth having.
Insects and mites occasionally damage the foliage and flowers of African violets.
Many fuzzy leafed plants, such as African violets, don't like water on their foliage because it leaves spots and can cause fungus.
You can camouflage the bulb foliage by carefully planting summer annuals around the bulbs once all danger of frost is past.
Possums can munch half a pound of foliage a day and prey on the eggs and chicks of endangered birds like the kokako, kereru, and kiwi.
Restio quadratus is a fast growing restio reaching approx 2m in height, forming a striking clump of architectural foliage when mature.
And prune plants to the ground after the first frost, even if foliage is not damaged.
Evergreen trees have dense green foliage that suits them for planting as privacy screens, windbreaks or backdrops for flowering trees and shrubs.
Margaret's shrinelike tomb canopy is almost hidden under carved foliage and tracery, with openwork rebuses, initials and ropework.
During the autumn, the foliage of tricolour sage and ajuga becomes burnished with bronze, plum, and garnet.
The plant's foliage withers back during the summer while pretty, orange-red berries appear in the fall.
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They showcase the sweetly fragrant yellow flowers of angel's trumpet surrounded by a colorful tapestry of shorter flowers and foliage plants.
American bittersweet is valued for its glossy green summer foliage followed by orange and red fruits and seeds, and several landscape cultivars are commercially marketed.
Try bulbs, wallflowers and pansies in spring, summer bedding for the hotter months, autumn and winter interest from chrysanthemums and foliage plants.
Like all wattles it's fast-growing and flowers from August to October, but a distinguishing feature is its foliage which smells of cinnamon when crushed in warm weather.
The snowdrops and aconites are nearly over but crocuses and daffodils are taking their place in the spotlight, and the foliage of early tulips may be poking through already.
The beds in my garden are jungle-like with the lush foliage I would normally expect to see towards the end of the month rather than at the beginning.
Green foliage must remain on any branches of junipers that are cut back.
Hellebore foliage combines well with other shade-loving perennials like wild ginger, cyclamen or Pulmonaria, as well as with bulbs such as snowdrops or miniature daffodils.
The reeded footposts with undercut foliage are typical of Salem beds of the Federal period, but the dramatic canted, carved paw feet move the bed into the classical style.
Silver-leafed artemisia varieties, lamb's ears and herbs, such as lavender, contribute grayish-silver foliage that are both handsome and aromatic.
Designer Harry Rice completed the aloha fantasy by bringing in full-grown palm trees and other foliage for the two air-conditioned tents where the 300 guests were entertained.
While the language of flowers and foliage is a dead language today, the dictionaries for this language still exist and inspire the more romantic, or devious, among us.
Bold colors and big foliage add tropical zest to summer gardens.
Notice below what a striking complement the Yellow Lavender, with its chartreuse foliage and its creamy beige flower petals, is to the French Lavender.
Cereal leaf beetle larvae may defoliate small grain foliage in the spring.
The quest is for the perfect moment, the exact time and location when a leaf peeper will encounter the height of foliage color and experience foliage ecstasy.
And until November 2, leaf peepers can call a twenty-four-hour fall foliage hotline telling them exactly when and where to catch peak colors throughout the region.
Nearby rock ledges had Asplenium rutamuraria, Pellaea atropurpurea, and other ferns typical of the habitat, and the foliage of Clematis occidentalis was noted.
These annuals are beautiful foliage plants becoming fashionable again.
Of course, the central conundrum of this painting is the massive area given over to the foliage at its center.
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Typically, their foliage is a dark and glossy green unmarked by black spot or mildew, for rugosas are among the most disease resistant of all roses.
These, coupled with the glossy green foliage which looks fresh and lush all year round, make them one of the most decorative species for situations with low light levels.
They emerge from the luxuriant foliage like lost Mayan temples.
Root-hardy almond verbena has sandpapery foliage and produces fingerlike clusters of small white almond-scented flowers that attract butterflies and hummingbirds.
The mitten-shaped foliage you sent appears to be that of a sassafras, a small to medium tree with fruit that turns deep blue and is carried on a bright red stalk.
Come September, attractive ferny foliage is a backdrop to yellow, lemon-peel flowers, which mix with fascinating tousled seed heads as the flowers drop.
Both foliage and flower are suitable for indoor arrangements, as is the dried seed head but if you cut it off you will deprive your plant of the opportunity to self-seed.
But the terrain is difficult, threaded with bayous and creeks, frequently flooded, and overridden with dense foliage and impenetrable undergrowth.
Related to cuckoo-hawks, bazas are generally most active at dusk, when they search the foliage of forest trees for large insects and small lizards.
This species of bear's breeches is a clump-forming perennial which is grown as much for its attractive foliage as for its architecturally bold flower spikes.
Butcher is famed for recreating, in vivid tonality and detail, the threatened Florida Everglades wilderness swamps, with their dense foliage and moss-draped cypress trees.
It has a fine Norman nave and transepts with a 13th-century choir and chapter house, where the stonework with its distinctive Southwell foliage is unique.
Exquisite rock islands cloaked in dense foliage are fringed by the shelves of coral reefs covered in crystal water leading you to precipitous drop-offs.
Intact foliage and root systems are needed for complete translocation.
Silk trees are looking a treat at the moment, and despite their feathery foliage and powderpuff flowers they love the heat and are a perfect small tree for sunny back yards.
The flat, strappy foliage of the exotic night bloomer contrasts texturally with a bed companion, the enormous, finely cut fronds of an Australian tree fern.
A stake, trellis, or cage keeps fruits and foliage off the soil and allows air to circulate around the plants, reducing the likelihood of foliage blights.
A site that provides for maximum air drainage which promotes faster drying of foliage can substantially reduce the risk of black rot and downy mildew.
All these combined with seasonal foliage and exotic flowers enable superb arrangements to be created, which filled the stage with a blaze of colour.
The carvers at Kilpeck also linked the Tree of Life carved on the tympanum with identical foliage gushing from the Green Man on the capital directly below.
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She wrapped her arms around her as a gust of wind blew by raising Beta's hair up into the air and rustling through the dark foliage of the hedge behind us.
In fall I leave the foliage on my daylilies to act as winter mulch.
The two visit the empty houses of their good friends and leave the gifts there, woven amongst the foliage of house plants and resting on the pillows of unmade beds.
Growth and foliage density may even be less than that on an unpruned tree.
The thick foliage wouldn't allow the moon's bright light to shine through.
The canopy of foliage comes from the whiteywood, and the ngaio.
Many evergreen ornamental foliage plants and flowering plants, including ivy, aloe, ceriman and spiderwort, have special effects to decompose formaldehyde.
The park has a combination of flat, hard-surface walks and retaining walls, surrounding areas of foliage and flowers of vividly contrasting colors.
Five tall, slender mushrooms with yellow stems and glowing orange caps reach through the decaying foliage toward the sky as ants burrow underground.
The species grows as a partially herbaceous deciduous vine, with fairly pale green, somewhat cut foliage and campanulate light rose-purple flowers.
He could smell the familiar odour of rotting foliage in his nostrils.
The olive is an evergreen with foliage of a distinctive silvery-green.
Just a few hours from Portland, Ore., or Seattle, you can stroll through the lush foliage of ferns and wildflowers, beneath ancient spruce, hemlock and cedar trees.
Ferns, hostas, camellias, pieris, heucheras and many others can provide foliage interest, while flowering interest can come from fuchsias, lilies and impatiens.
Each stem carries up to 10 nodding sulphur coloured flared bell shaped flowers, growing from a base of deep green foliage that has attractive mottled markings.
Its fine, ferny foliage smells of aniseed when crushed, and the panicles of seed heads last through until the autumn when the finches will eat them.
Barlow says that when she grows hyacinth bean, its red-veined purple foliage and sweet pea-like purple or white flowers stop people in their tracks.
The Dutch colonial houses were graceful and large, set back amid cocas, kanary, and nutmeg trees, while the rest of the small town lay half hidden in the foliage of palms.
The tree's bright green foliage contrasted with the swing, whose wood had long perished, cut off from its source of life, and was now numb to the world.
The excised design of stems and foliage is glazed with a rich green and blue, while the phlox flowers at the top and lower sides of the panels have a pale ocher glaze.
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The long, dark, rough leaves of the clematis contrast well with the yellow and green foliage of the pittosporum, which grows against a warm brick wall in the sun.
Species with sparse foliage are scattered in open areas and accumulated small or highly variable seed densities. whereas open interspaces seldom received any seeds.
Potential foods included not only pollinating insects of angiosperm flowers but also the pollens, nectars, fruits, seeds and foliage of angiosperms themselves.
Combine flowering plants with interesting foliage textures and colors.
A pink-flowered cosmos planted during the summer is at its best at the moment after spending the past few months developing bushy foliage with disappointingly few flowers.
Look for a grass that has colorful foliage and is not too dense, which indicates that the plant has already become pot-bound and might be difficult to establish if planted.
Hydrangea foliage is also susceptible to leaf spots and powdery mildew.
It belongs to the Maranta group, whose other members with interesting foliage have such names as the prayer plant, zebra plant and herringbone plant.
In the annual and perennial border it is often enough to just deadhead plants, trim back spent foliage and remove the odd weed to free up your favourites.
While the peonies described above are herbaceous perennials, an interesting variation of the genus are the tree peonies, deciduous shrubs with lovely foliage and flowers.
Much of the remaining foliage is stunted, dulled by defoliants.
They eat the foliage and shoot tips from a wide range of plants and also kill young trees and shrubs by gnawing the bark from the base of the stems.
The tree kangaroos have made themselves at home, already totally comfortable with the new climbing structure and munching on prunus and elm foliage provided for them to eat.
Being a purple foliage lover, I am also fascinated by the deep purples and purples with slate blue overtones that have been developed in the flower colors.
Dahlias are best dug up and brought in when the foliage has been blacked by the first frosts, although warmer winters do give them a better chance of surviving in the garden.
Without any visual aid, while standing in the gallery, one can discern foliage blocking our view of her head.
As the trees grow taller in denser forest, they lose their lower branches, such that the foliage may start high off the ground.
The variety 'Nigra' with black foliage and pink flowers, has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
The foliage itself remains toxic even when wilted, and toxicity increases in potency when dried.
White fly, spider mites and even aphids like heat and plant foliage that has developed soft and succulent under too-warm conditions.
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Think peace lilies, dracaena, spider plants, philodendron, ferns and any other green foliage plant.
First, if the foliage is yellow and smaller than normal, the problem could be chlorosis, which is caused by a shortage of iron.
It would be ideal against the silvery foliage of some achilleas or artemisias.
Tradescantia Sweet Kate is bold and eye catching with yellow strap-like foliage and clusters of large purple blue, three-petalled flowers.
Males may also use their antlers to shovel around fallen foliage and soil as a way of attracting a mate.
Open spaces made visible the approach to almost every one of them, or else a splendid mass of foliage stood out before it like an oriflamme.
The scales are of two types, true storage organs and the bases of the foliage leaves.
Give winter protection to rock plants with grey woolly foliage by covering them with a cloche or rigid plastic supported on bricks.
Anthriscus sylvestris 'Ravenswing', grown for its bronzy foliage as much as its airy cow parsley flowers, was everywhere.
Clumpers with graceful foliage include golden goddess bamboo and Mexican weeping bamboo.
The foliage is also eaten by the larvae of some Lepidopteran insects including the moth willow beauty.
During prolonged dry periods the foliage is dropped to conserve water and prevent death from drought.
Nitrogenous fertilisers aid leaf growth so green vegetables and any foliage plants will really benefit from it.
Forests where a majority of the trees lose their foliage at the end of the typical growing season are called deciduous forests.
Plants with deciduous foliage have advantages and disadvantages compared to plants with evergreen foliage.
Rather, they are produced in the foliage in late summer, when sugars are trapped in the leaves after the process of abscission begins.
The 3-D, leaf-like foliage netting is compactible, color-reversible, lightweight, durable, quiet and rustle-free.
Other good bets include the purple coneflower echinacea purpurea, which has pretty basal foliage and bears big, purple-pink daisy-like flowers.
Greek foliage decoration was also influential, with Indian versions of the Corinthian capital appearing.
Yucca and Cordyline are gaining favor for their bold, architectural structure, interesting foliage colors and drought tolerance.

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