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low-growing

ADJECTIVE
  1. of plants that grow relatively low to the ground

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  • Smaller gardens may benefit from the use of slow-growing box hedging which was used in formal gardens of old to create geometric patterns, called parterres.
  • On the ground, climbing fern creates tough, spongy mats that can easily smother grasses, low-growing shrubs, and small trees.
  • Scattered shrubs include two kinds of low-growing blueberries and the dwarf live oak, which is less than a foot tall.
  • So the slow-growing muscle has a chance to develop the subtle grains of fat - the ‘marbling’ so prized in the best beef - that most of its cervine relatives are lacking.
  • It is medium and low-growing hedges and edgings that are underused; they can have enormous value in even the smallest gardens.
  • Pink spikes and white and vivid blue spikes; masses of brown and orange cups, like low-growing tulips; ranks of beautiful vetches and purple lupines; escholtzias, like immense sweeps of golden sunlight; wild sweet peas; trumpet-shaped blossoms whose name no one knew, -- all flung broadcast over the face of the land, and in such stintless quantities that it dazzled the mind to think of as it did the eyes to behold them. Clover
  • The bunchberry dogwood plant is a low-growing perennial that is usually under eight inches tall.
  • Superb instant effects can be achieved by using semi-advanced seedlings of annual flowers such as lobelia, marigolds, pansies and primulas, which are all low-growing and suitable for containers.
  • Good foliage plants for fillers are low-growing artemisias, dusty miller, and golden, purple, or tricolor sage.
  • The secret to growing the slow-growing halophiles is to keep the nutrient concentration low enough to curb the growth of competing organisms.
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