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Sentence Examples The willows, white oaks, cottonwoods, and pecans that grow here are normally much taller than the oaks of the Cross Timbers forest. It had a large garden, she noted absently, with weeping willows and cherry trees. Out of curiosity, he glanced back at his rear view mirror, and felt relieved to see nothing but the dusty little trail framed by weeping willows. Forests of oaks, pines and weeping willows are different from one another, but at least they are all forests. I looked out and saw the last drops of sunlight filtering through the crisscrossed branches of the weeping willows. The eerie squeal of a wood duck came from somewhere behind the gray tangle of naked oaks, willows cypress, elm, tupelo and cottonwood. They planted oaks, poplars, cork oaks, pines, chestnuts, candle pines, ashes, willows and many other trees. Invasive aliens, mainly weeping willows, which are the dominant species at the dam, were eradicated. And in fall, as the larches yellow and the willows redden, its colors are rich, poignant. The boatman beaches us on a spit of land leading up to a stone house surrounded by willows. We saw anglers in the welcome shade of the willows fishing for sheatfishes. A river from the fading distance, which is one mist of collapsed aqueducts and castles, wanders between poplars and pollarded willows. Don't plant trees with deep roots, especially invasive species such as willows. Even before the aspen and willows leaf out in the spring you'll see honeysuckles' green haze in abandoned fields and across wooded hillsides. A narrow band of waterside willows is continuous and is bordered on our side by a flat area 20 yards wide, then the floodbank. Cape ivy harms willows by overgrowing saplings and blocking out light the trees need to survive. And the mountain zones are rife with arctic wildflowers like arctic willows and saxifrage. Drawn in the big willows at Poppleton he used a groundbait feeder and worm combination for a small barbel, an eel and a roach. Adastus breeds at higher latitudes and elevations where willows are the dominant, and frequently the only, nesting shrub. A palm warbler is sighted in a patch of willows, which also teems with catbirds, warbling vireos, yellow warblers, and a blackpoll or two. Show More Sentences The only plant eaters to survive were reindeer that grazed on lichens and moose that fed on willows. No more tally-ho across the shires then, no more hunting horns skirling across the frosty banks of willows in the winter morning. Recently, hundreds of volunteers have planted oaks, ashes, box elders, and willows. The sound of distant ships' engines can be heard from a nearby river, which is dotted with swaying willows. Now if we lived somewhere, say in Louisiana, the driveway would be surrounded by weeping willows and Spanish moss. All around the horse corral, it was overgrown with viny bushes and thick rooted willows. We drop our packs in the willows and begin bushwhacking up and down the river, searching for a safe place to ford. As the north-westerly wind whistled shrilly through the willows near my house, I concluded that this year would be special for kite-lovers. The marsh gave way gradually to dry land, and the reeds and willows to hazels and elders. From the Cardrona hotel the valley opens out and willows grow beside the little Cardrona River. The lowland is lush with cattails and willows, and an osprey nest suggests the presence of trout. The 20-square-metre classroom on the third floor commands a view of willows and winding streams. In the eastern part of the State where the Swainson's hawks were once a common breeder, the cottonwoods and willows were used as nesting sites. Neerly 20,000 seeds of walnut, chestnut, ash, oaks, sycamores, pines, willows and bamboos were put in. Let the light of the burning building scare the nightingales and incarnadine the willows. The sun beats down, melting the glaciers that feed water into the streams, irrigating settlements and creating oases of willows and poplars. There are many crack willows and a mixed woodland of beech, birch, lime, sycamore, alder, rowan and ash. Less usual native trees are scattered throughout the woods and include wild cherry, aspen, and crack willows. Its ecological values are being degraded, due to the rapid invasion by grey and crack willows. As crack willows are a weedy species, especially along creeks, there are better alternatives. Show More Sentences Introduced species of flora like crack willows had choked and badly affected water quality in the creek. The black willow is native to Wisconsin and the weeping and crack willows are exotics brought into Wisconsin from somewhere else. True weeping willow flowers early and therefore is usually not pollinated by crack willows, except occasionally in coastal areas. There are quite a few large crack willows in the park which are leaning over at alarming angles. I painted all day out in the wood, producing a series of canvases of the old crack willows overhanging the stream. If left to grow to maturity, crack willows have a large and full crown, but they are often pollarded. The trees along the bank are mainly crack willows, so called because of the brittleness of their twigs. You can still see pollarded crack willows if you travel through the Somerset levels just north-east of Taunton. The goat willows that have grown there are a particular feature and are subject to a tree preservation order. The road to Gulmarg is lined first with willows and then deodars as we climb. The willows overhanging it discard huge branches which should have been pruned back years ago. Out on the fields there are long lines of willows greening up, ready to give new bud and make a year's growth ready for coppicing in the Autumn. The flora is dominated by Sequoia, cypresses, elms, oaks, willows, and cottonwoods. If you are growing your willows and dogwoods for their colourful winter stems, cut them hard back now. In addition to the oaks, the city lost wax myrtles, hackberries, weeping willows and magnolias. All willows are fast growing and short-lived, and their wood is notably weak and prone to breaking. It was an oil landscape of a large mansion in the distance framed by oak trees and weeping willows. The most common forms included beech-like trees, poplars, willows, cattails, sumac, soapberry, and conifers such as pines, sequoias, and false cypress. He had ended up in a clearing, with white willows leaning to towards the water, trailing their long leafy curtain of fingers through the cool refreshing spring. Wisteria, weeping willows and reeds are mirrored in the calm of the pond. Show More Sentences Wet meadows have abundant grasses, sedges, and rushes, while low-growing shrubs include black crowberry, mountain cranberry, shrubby cinquefoil, and three dwarf willows. The train passes mature hardwood maple, beech, yellow birch, hickory and American linden trees, and softwood alders and willows weeping over a calm pond. Timber on the mountainsides here grows in vertical stripes on the flanks between gulches where avalanches scour everything but the most flexible willows and young trees. Kate was visiting the willows Primary School, which is, against all the odds, one of the city's most successful primaries. The slough holds white crappie, and this time of year it's common for them to gather in groups around deadfalls, cypress, flooded willows and other cover in the shallows. They added more than 20 riffle weirs, 15 post vanes, and 80,000 willows to slow water down, protect streambanks, increase habitat and raise the water table. The planting included oak, ash, crab-apple, field maple, hawthorn, blackthorn, privet and dogwood and down by the ponds in River Field two areas of willows were planted. Some of the crack willows in this area have grown up to 15 metres high. Still following the sure footing of rocky drainages, we flushed ptarmigan from the willows as we went, at one point rousting several hundred of them. Hoopoes breed across most of Europe, except Scandinavia, favouring open country and clumps of old trees including pollard willows, meadows orchards and olive plantations. The sweet herbal aroma of bog myrtle drifts from the shallow mires that harbour a tangle of willows and silver-barked birch or are spattered yellow with asphodels. The river had sported a ragged and changing assemblage of cottonwoods, dense stands of willows, and water-seeking shrubs, weeds, grasses, and moss. The Asian longhorned beetle that invaded New York in 1996 has since killed thousands of the state's hardwood trees, including maples, elms, willows, and poplars. East of the Cascades this is often in conifers, willows, Russian olives, or junipers, and west of the Cascades in conifers, willows, or ash trees. The subtle pinks and reds of tamarisk and acequia willows first appear along our water course, the green of young cottonwood leaves to follow soon. Between 150 and 100 million years ago, the cycads were joined by figs, sassafras, oaks, and willows, as well as such evergreen plants as sequoias and palms. In places, where low-hanging willows crowd either bank, we could almost be nosing upstream along a tributary of the Amazon, so enclosed is the water. The beetles' affinity for certain trees, like maples, poplars, willows, and elms, is significant because such attractive species may be used as sentinel trees. Ahead of me a row of pollarded willows lines the bank of the stream, beyond which the ground slopes gently upwards towards leafless woodland, appearing sombre grey. Then we turn into a driveway-width water-lane, drifting along under arching tupelos and willows in new leaf, startled only by the emphatic song of prothonotary warblers. Show More Sentences The understory in parts of the reserve is dense, consisting of willows, twinberry, devil's club, highbush cranberry, wild rose, and numerous annual plants. For example, cattails, bulrushes, cordgrass, sphagnum moss, bald cypress, willows, mangroves, sedges, rushes, arrowheads, and water plantains usually occur in wetlands. I hadn't noticed it before, but a light fog misted over the far off maples and oaks and straggly birches and weeping willows in dusk, dreary cheer. Some of the fields are nice, traditionally managed, and Broadlands Beck is pleasant with holly dominant, honeysuckle green and goat willows dripping catkins. The planting included oak, ash, crab apple, field maple, hawthorn, blackthorn, privet and dogwood and down by the ponds two areas of willows were planted. We glide beneath arched stone-and-ironwork bridges, under the reaches of weeping willows, their branches bowed into the astonishingly clear water. The herbaceous vegetation would have been rich and diverse, including, for example, cattail, buttonbush, numerous sedges, grasses and rushes, and bushy willows and alder. That can mean a mile of soggy walking through thick willows, alders, deadfalls, and water up to your knees. The slabs preserved the impressions of leaves from oaks, elms, beeches, birches and willows that had lived thousands of years ago. However, they also eat the leaves of willows and birches, as well as sedges and grasses. I didn't know one could pollard elms. I thought one only pollarded willows. He then had willows and other trees planted along the dyke, making it a beautiful landmark. A solitary cotton-wood, with an occasional clump of willows, constitute the sylva of this portion of the river. Stocks of roses, willows, weigelas, dogwoods and philadelphus can be increased through hardwood cuttings. It's a magical tale, though with no muggles, mind you, or whomping willows. Rambunctious pigs no longer escape from Zona Ainsworth's place and scamper across Mission Gorge Road to root among the willows. In fact, the original aspirin came from the inner back of willows, which contains salicin. In a corner of the meadow, almost hidden by a stand of huge weeping willows, is a swimming hole. Arriving at a strategic vantage point invariably means trudging through a sinking carpet of pitcher plants, dwarf willows, lichen and crowberry. They can eat horse chestnuts, white mulberries, willows, elms, black locusts, hibiscuses, and Russian olives. Show More Sentences Hostas, ferns, Astilbes and Gunneras all love damp soils as do willows, Eucalyptus, alder and Liquidamber. Take hardwood cuttings in late autumn to propagate shrubs including roses, willows, philadelphus, weigelas and dogwoods. Descending the side of the levee, he penetrated the rank density of weeds and willows that undergrew the trees until the river's edge, shouting Victor's name. They suggested that 'blue oaks should be considered obligate phreatophytes,' that is, water-loving plants similar to, for example, riverbank willows. He had abundant leisure for cultivating his garden, making a canal after the Dutch fashion of Moor Park, planting willows, and rebuilding the vicarage. Then we hunted up a place close by to hide the canoe in, amongst the thick willows. We took some fish off of the lines and set them again, and begun to get ready for dinner. The upper terminus of each ravine is choked with willows and canary grass. Over by the creek-bed scarlet-flamed sumac shouldered the silver-green of the willows, and orange-colored bittersweet crept through the tangle of wild plums. The site has been planted with hydrangeas, rhododendrons and willows, as well as foxgloves, ferns, harebells, meadowsweet, iris, marsh marigolds and forget-me-nots. The larva stage has a special liking for sugar, silver, Norway, boxelder and sycamore maples as well as elms, poplars, willows, birch, horse chestnuts and fruit trees. Examples from Classical Literature We proceeded along its valley, where colossal planes and elms, as well as robinia and willows, afforded a welcome shade. Below is a golden sheen where the spicebush is in flower, and a shimmer of pale green about the early willows. In willows the change of pistils into staminal organs has been frequently observed. Beyond this the road swung into the Morteyn road, that lay cool and moist along the willows that bordered the river lisse. The most common nesting place of the yellow warbler is in low willows along the shores of streams. This is done with chicken wire, or with willows or old staves where they can be had. The arable lands of Hango are nearly destitute of trees, a few willows being the only arboreous vegetation. When he had first seen Cynthia among the willows by Coniston Water, he had thought her a wood nymph. Amidst a cluster of locusts and weeping willows, rose the spire of the church, in the ungarnished decency of Sunday neatness. The willows began to shake and quiver and the wind that stirred them was nipping. She stood up and looked around for a water sign, and not far away discovered a little clump of willows, which advertised a spring. The copper beech, the high privet hedge and the willows beyond it, shut out both light and air. Our way lay down the valley of the Gers, under poplars and by long rows of willows, and presently the sun came out and warmed us. It was indeed that of a man whom she could not see, as he was hidden by the willows. I retired to the vicinity of the willows and uttered the cry of the barred owl. The Havasu Canyon is a Basket Maker's paradise, for the stream is lined for miles with willows suitable for this work. Instances of this kind may be met with in willows, hazels, alders, and other amentaceous plants. At Driftwood, a bluethroat was caught on August 28, 1952, in a trap set among willows. No sign of game was seen near the Lake of willows, and no halt was made. In the Keuka Lake District, the canes are tied with willows. Show More Sentences These industrious animals abounded in all the mountain streams and watercourses, wherever there were willows for their subsistence. There is hope of a sparkling river, of willows and lush water-meadows but there is no gleam of water. The way to the shore descended from the bank on which the house was perched to a walk above the water planted with weeping willows. One of the two weeping willows stands over a long-dried pond circled by nettles, whose sting eagerly anticipates the brush of naked flesh. Burney ran114 for the willows under the bank as coaly quickened his pace. Here also his grave is digged under the willows in the valley. Suddenly She sees the bloom of willows far and wide, And grieves for him she lent to fame and war. Here I had not been seated long before I heard a person on the other side of the willows sighing and bemoaning himself bitterly. The ferryman emerged from the willows and stepped into his boat. An old gray house, surrounded by willows, in a blossomy brook valley, looked more promising, but did not seem quite the thing either. We stopped for tiffin by a broad stream bordered by willows. As he reached the towpath Marchmont appeared before the willows. The rivers, in general, were skirted with willows and bitter cottonwood trees, and the prairies covered with wormwood. But the outcropping willows at least served one useful purpose. Off to the right there was a river dark with cottonwoods and willows. She did not stop till she was in her Secret Place among the willows. The rebel sprang up through the willows and fell forward on his face. But in the willows there was just the suspicion of yellow-green. Heard a horseman pass and repass as I lay concealed in the willows. The willows, on mild April days, resound with the roar of insect traffic. Show More Sentences Presently the willows parted on the other bank, and Robin could hardly forebear laughing out right. Similarly, the bare willows seem to signal the fruitlessness of her unrequited love. The stranger hesitated, pausing once or twice with his back towards her, as if engaged in carefully examining the dwarf willows to select a switch. Jim warn't on his island, so I tramped off in a hurry for the crick, and crowded through the willows, red-hot to jump aboard and get out of that awful country. An' willows and trees of all kinds growing along the edges, and here a riffle where you can flip out trout, and there a deep pool where you can swim and high-dive. Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows feeding unconcernedly for the most part, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight. At last she got away, and did not stop in her retreat till she was in the thicket of pollard willows at the lower side of the barton, where she could be quite unseen. He burned the elms the willows and the tamarisks, the lotus also, with the rushes and marshy herbage that grew abundantly by the banks of the river. Find more words! 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