How To Use Flower head In A Sentence
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The body is moulded with two series of gadroons on either side of a horizontal rib; the foot is moulded with small gadroons radiating from a central flower head with the mark in its centre.
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If you usually pinch back the dead flower heads, new ones will grow.
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The broccoli now has a tiny purple flower head, so hopefully that will grow nicely and I can have some home grown!
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European hawkweed having flower heads with bright orange-red rays; a troublesome weed especially as naturalized in northeastern North America; sometimes placed in genus Hieracium.
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It is a tall plant up to 3ft high and the flower head is just as prickly as a thistle.
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Pruning also removes the spent flower heads, which are among the ugliest and untidiest of the plant world.
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The cabinet on offer contains a moulded swan-neck pediment carved with flower heads, between which is a rather impressive carved eagle crest.
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Keep an eye out for smaller, single blooms, composite flower heads or plants with a branching structure.
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The flower head consists of a spathe and spadix.
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The fragrant flower heads can be trimmed off and saved, but cut off the flower stalk plus two or three pairs of leaves.
The Sun
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Flower heads and a short amount of stalk lend a subtle elegance to pears poached in white wine with honey and lemon juice.
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compound flower heads
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If planted in the shade they tend to become tall and leggy as they strive to reach towards the life giving sun and if in too damp a spot, the stems become too weak to hold the huge flower heads erect and thus fall over.
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It grows to seven feet, and its flower heads, whitish and forming a fan shape, appear in October.
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It has jade green flower heads which turn deep burgundy as they age.
The Sun
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As larvae feed, they spin silken threads, trapping the dying florets and their frass, giving the sunflower head a trashy appearance.
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It writhed down her arm, and its five rubescent flower heads thrust out toward the priestess -- vibrating, quivering, held in leash only by the light touch of the handmaiden at its very end.
The Moon Pool
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Cheery yellow flower heads nod all around me, their colours heightened.
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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.
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It has jade green flower heads which turn deep burgundy as they age.
The Sun
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Keep an eye out for smaller, single blooms, composite flower heads or plants with a branching structure.
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The larva is apodous and feeds on the flower head, fruits, seeds, stem or roots.
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The flower heads are small and numerous compared to other thistles and the roots are extensive.
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As we walked through dense patches of devil's bit scabious, scores of peacock butterflies – sometimes two to a flower head – rose and fluttered around us.
Country diary: Durham coast
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It puts up large, rather untidy leaves in the summer, they wither and vanish - and then, as the days start to shorten, overnight those irresistible, fleshy flower heads leap out of the soil.
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It has jade green flower heads which turn deep burgundy as they age.
The Sun
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At present 70 per cent of the broccoli plant is wasted, with only the flower heads harvested.
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On a walk through the five-acre garden you encounter great bushes of Blue Bonnet, whose huge flower heads vary from powder blue to cobalt.
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The flower head consists of a spathe and spadix.
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They have stout stems for holding proudly aloft, bold flower heads that last well and they keep a long time.
The Sun
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The fragrant flower heads can be saved, but cut off the stalk plus 2-3 pairs of leaves.
The Sun
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The perfume of its tiny lilac flower heads will scent a room in summer months.
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This species has sweet and palatable bulbs and also bears clusters of bulbils at the flower head.
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Each flower head is 12-25 mm in diameter and consists of 50-60 bisexual disk florets surrounded by 12-15 pistillate ray florets.
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Add decorative and edible flower heads to your salads, such as nasturtiums, marigold petals, violas and chive flowers.
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It relates to the disposition of leaves on a stem and seeds in a flower head.
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Composite flower heads appear from June, colouring from green buds to a vivid red in time for autumn.
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In poor soil the flower heads become smaller and the clumps thinner and shorter, but the plant will still stand up.
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The pastry crusts were not only as part of the dish, pies and flans would be moulded and decorated with flower heads in season.
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The atmosphere is heavy with the scents of a dark corner of the garden or even of the inside of one of the sheds, all damp wood and dried flower heads.
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These birds have plucked all the flower heads off.
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an agglomerated flower head
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Each experiment was carried out on flower heads which had been protected from foreign pollen by bagging.
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Against them, the geranium cast a fantastic shadow, umbrellas for leaves, cabbages for flower heads.
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In poor soil the flower heads become smaller and the clumps thinner and shorter, but the plant will still stand up.
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The outermost two rows of florets on the flower head opened and anthesed on the same day.
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Of Near Eastern inspiration are the arabesques, ogees, scrolls, and flower heads outlined in raised gold paste.
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In the U.S.A. plants are cut and windrowed when most flower heads are still yellow, and left to dry.
12: Seeds and germplasm
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If you look closely at the flower head you can see lots of bulbils forming - each one of those will grow into a new plant if it gets the chance.
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If plant pulling is not feasible, flower head removal helps reduce the spread of the seeds.
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A curiosity of the water hyacinth is that, in floating plants, the flower heads or inflorescences bend downwards one or two days after flowering,, submerging themselves in the water.
Did you know? Lake Chapala under attack from water hyacinth
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In the growing light lorries unloaded: from under their canvas what seemed a cornucopia, a river of flower heads, flowed.
COUP D'ETAT
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As larvae feed, they spin silken threads, trapping the dying florets and their frass, giving the sunflower head a trashy appearance.
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In poor soil the flower heads become smaller and the clumps thinner and shorter, but the plant will still stand up.
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Someone has twisted off the flower heads.
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It writhed down her arm, and its five rubescent flower heads thrust out toward the priestess — vibrating, quivering, held in leash only by the light touch of the handmaiden at its very end.
The Moon Pool
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Indeed, aster, the Latin word for star, aptly describes the starry flower heads.
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Hydrangea arborescens ‘Annabelle’ dried flower heads can be seen at the lower right.
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The pipewort family, whose plants put forth a single flower head on one stem, is well represented by three kinds of pipeworts, at least two kinds of bog-buttons, and one species of hatpins.
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Of Near Eastern inspiration are the arabesques, ogees, scrolls, and flower heads outlined in raised gold paste.
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It is a herbaceous perennial plant, where the leaves are glossy and flower heads are arum-shaped.
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In poor soil the flower heads become smaller and the clumps thinner and shorter, but the plant will still stand up.
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A mix of glossy and matte leaves and angular and round flower heads will keep the eye moving.
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Keep an eye out for smaller, single blooms, composite flower heads or plants with a branching structure.
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l Collect the seed from perennials and annuals by tying a paper bag over the flower head, then cut the stem off the plant.
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Flower heads and a short amount of stalk lend a subtle elegance to pears poached in white wine with honey and lemon juice.
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They are indigenous evergreen shrubs with large showy flower heads prized by florists and plant collectors all over the world.
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Milk thistle is best known for its curative effect on the human liver, but its flower heads are eaten like artichokes, and the roots are served boiled in Chile, its country of origin.
