How To Use Low-growing In A Sentence
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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.
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On the ground, climbing fern creates tough, spongy mats that can easily smother grasses, low-growing shrubs, and small trees.
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Scattered shrubs include two kinds of low-growing blueberries and the dwarf live oak, which is less than a foot tall.
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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.
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It is medium and low-growing hedges and edgings that are underused; they can have enormous value in even the smallest gardens.
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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
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The bunchberry dogwood plant is a low-growing perennial that is usually under eight inches tall.
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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.
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Good foliage plants for fillers are low-growing artemisias, dusty miller, and golden, purple, or tricolor sage.
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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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These trees also differ in their manner of growth: "the greengage is a very short-jointed, slow-growing tree, of spreading and rather dwarfish habit;" whilst its offspring, the imperial gage, "grows freely and rises rapidly, and has long dark shoots.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
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This is no low-growing wallflower but rather a full-sized shrub that can grow up to 15 feet tall under the best of conditions.
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The alpine vegetation is typically tundra, and includes discontinuous patches of low-growing heather (Ericaceae), sedge (Carex spp.), and mountain avens (Dryas hookeriana).
Northern transitional alpine forests
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Also excellent in a rock garden are low-growing bushy bulbous plants such as Anemone blanda, Oxalis adenophylla and Allium karataviense.
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Early March is the ideal time to start many slow-growing flower and herb seeds for this summer's garden.
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The pecans still in their husks were the ones you planted to get trees; notoriously slow-growing trees.
MOM
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Modern lycophytes are low-growing understory plants, epiphytes, and submerged aquatics - they are not a significant fraction of the modern vegetation.
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In the top of the wall, to soften the lines, Douglas has planted tough, low-growing alpines such as sedums, saxifrages and alpine pinks Dianthus alpinus.
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Wet meadows have abundant grasses, sedges, and rushes, while low-growing shrubs include black crowberry, mountain cranberry, shrubby cinquefoil, and three dwarf willows.
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And pulling up a handful of pansies by the roots, I find them "without stems," indeed, if a stem means a wooden thing; but I should say, for a low-growing flower, quiet lankily and disagreeably stalky!
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
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A low-growing bushy plant that forms a tall stalk with bell-shaped flowers.
Berries and Seeds
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Other options include ajuga and low-growing herbs such as thyme.
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The sativa is a lanky, slow-growing but potent weed hailing from tropical and subtropical climes.
Boutique buds: What underground mom-and-pop growers did while we debated legalization
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They are low-growing, everblooming daisies that are also called arctotis.
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Bilateral slow-growing enlargement of the parotids is a classic, but not common, finding in sarcoidosis.
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Remove all rootstock suckers or low-growing branches, and pinch the main stems to keep the height manageable.
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The method destroys or disturbs delicate, slow-growing seabed communities.
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Bergenias, sedums, persicaria and other low-growing plants link the two.
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His conclusions show that, for slow-growing organisms, the energy costs for maintaining cells in suspension is substantially less for gas-vesiculate than for flagellated organisms (Walsby 1994).
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It says bigeye tuna is slow-growing and more vulnerable to exploitation than skipjack and yellowfin tuna.
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It contains narcissi and a slow-growing conifer, which will soon be too big.
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As its name suggests, creeping marshwort is a low-growing plant. The leaves are toothed with a single large cleft, and the plant sends out runners which creep low to the ground or slightly below the surface.
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We could climb over the low-growing hedges of lavender or box or rosemary, but every time he ducked under one of the high, clipped hedges planted in privet or briar or whitethorn, we had to go around.
Secrets of the Tudor Court
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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.
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Heidiphyllum elongatum was probably a relatively low-growing shrubby voltzialean conifer that formed dominant to monospecific thickets in areas of higher water table on a floodplain, or on sandbars within the braided river channels.
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The faint scent of wild wintergreen came up from beneath his feet as he stepped on their spreading, low-growing mats of small-leaved growth and tiny, pale lavender flowers, until he came at last to the edge of the meadow.
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The reefs of the Pacific, the deep-sea soundings of the Atlantic, show that it is to the slow-growing coral and to the imperceptible animalcule, which lives its brief space and then adds its tiny shell to the muddy cairn left by its brethren and ancestors, that we must look as the agents in the formation of limestone and chalk, and not to hypothetical oceans saturated with calcareous salts and suddenly depositing them.
Essays
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The cancer caused by this new cancer gene is called adenoid cystic carcinoma and is a slow-growing b ...
THE MEDICAL NEWS
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Pre-order your poulet rouge, a slow-growing French breed of chicken prized for its rich flavor, from Evensong ($5 per pound).
Market Roundup: Sept 30-Oct. 7
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Below them grow low-growing shrubs and ground covers, such as azaleas, dittany of Crete, ferns, and junipers.
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How can a mahogany desk, made of slow-growing hard wood plundered from the Amazon, be eco-friendly?
Life After Desk: Don’t Toss that Tropical Hardwood
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Gently prune large, slow-growing shrubs such as witch hazel, magnolia and Japanese maple.
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Acacia koa is nodulated by the slow-growing Bradyrhizobium spp. common in tropical soils.
Chapter 2
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Despite the green hues in this image, these rocky islands are too cold to sustain more than a smattering of low-growing vegetation.
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The perfect combination of events for the sawflies was a cool spring so that everything was slow-growing
Prairiemary
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Another excellent performer is Sorbus kewensis, a slow-growing, shrubby tree with great clusters of luscious fruits.
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Cover a berm with low-growing aromatic herbs such as basil, prostrate rosemary, sage, and lemon and lime thyme.
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Plants in other bed are mainly low-growing, shade-loving perennials, such as the hostas, ferns, and lungworts clustered beneath trees.
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This sunk garden, with its turf, its stone walks, that are not walked upon, its small evergreens, cut by topiarian art into the semblance of birds, its low-growing plants rich in varicoloured flowers, its evergreen arbour at the farther end as a background to a statue of Venus, its little fountain in the centre, is a spot that always attracts visitors -- attracts and holds them by its spell of quiet beauty.
Hampton Court
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The ecoregion supports dense carpets of moss and fruticose lichen, along with closed, low-growing ericaceous shrubs.
South Avalon-Burin oceanic barrens
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It's very slow-growing and screening finds precancerous cells and allows early treatment.
HPV test beats Pap smear for cervical cancer screening
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It's extremely slow-growing, making a small bushy plant.
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A slow-growing evergreen with graceful undulating leaves, the new spring foliage is cream, gradually changing to dark green.
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(The slow-growing General Fund, which pays for most noneducation agencies, isn't quite so subject to the whims of the economy.)
News | GT | http://www.gadsdentimes.com
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Bull trout are slow-growing fish that mature late, spawn in nonconsecutive years, and likely have small population sizes; all these characteristics heighten their sensitivity to impacts and complicate management.
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The result was the popular label rouge, or “red label,” which identifies chickens that have been produced according to specific standards: they are slow-growing varieties, fed primarily on grain rather than artificially concentrated feeds, raised in flocks of moderate size and with access to the outdoors, and slaughtered at 80 or more days of age rather than 40 to 50.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
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Protections for bocaccio, yelloweye and canary rockfish, a slow-growing rockfish that can outlive many humans were pushed into oblivion due to overfishing in the 1970s and 1980s.
The Seattle Times
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Building on the idea of interplanting, Better Homes & Gardens magazine suggests that gardeners combine plants that produce vines and can be grown on trellises or fences along with low-growing crops.
Undefined
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A meningioma is a slow-growing tumor in the membranes that cover the brain, mostly occurring in older women.
Mary Tyler Moore to undergo brain surgery
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Caesalpinia spinosa/Coulteria tinctorea (known as "tara" in Bolivia): slow-growing, leguminous, very drought-resistant tree for high altitudes; young seeds reportedly edible by humans but mature seeds toxic; not palatable to goats.
Chapter 25
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Greenpeace say the area in question is the only one off Sweden known to hold maerl beds, formed from slow-growing algae, and bubble reefs made of lime deposit, and is vulnerable to bottom trawling.
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE
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For example, fabric row covers can protect low-growing food crops, such as cabbage or squash.
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Small-leafed, slow-growing types of geraniums lend themselves to the painstaking art of topiary.
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It says bigeye tuna is slow-growing and more vulnerable to exploitation than skipjack and yellowfin tuna.
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It begins with slow-growing, pre-cancerous lesions which can be indentified with screening and removed with cryosurgery, the freezing technique used to remove warts, moles and small skin cancers.
Craig and Marc Kielburger: How Screening Saves Lives
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For slow-growing tumors such as meningioma and acoustic neuroma, as well as for glioma among long-term users, the absence of association reported thus far is less conclusive because the observation period has been too short
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