garden plant


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Noun1.garden plant - any of a variety of plants usually grown especially in a flower or herb gardengarden plant - any of a variety of plants usually grown especially in a flower or herb garden
plant life, flora, plant - (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion
bedder, bedding plant - an ornamental plant suitable for planting in a flowerbed
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The trees upon the bank were giant garden plants; he noted a definite order in their arrangement, inhaled the fragrance of their blooms.
I thought it would have been so pleasant to have looked out upon a garden planted with flowers and trees, so amusing to have watched the demoiselles at their play; to have studied female character in a variety of phases, myself the while sheltered from view by a modest muslin curtain, whereas, owing doubtless to the absurd scruples of some old duenna of a directress, I had now only the option of looking at a bare gravelled court, with an enormous "pas de geant" in the middle, and the monotonous walls and windows of a boys' school-house round.
The team created a compound using feverfew, a common flowering garden plant, to kill chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) cells.
SWEET WILLIAM 'DIANTHUS BARBATUS' cottage garden plant - full of colour, charm and scent.
SWEET WILLIAM is a classic cottage garden plant - full of colour, charm and scent.
Despite being a typical English garden plant, lavender comes from the Mediterranean - making it very tolerant of summer droughts.
But Vale of Glamorgan Council have said it's a hellebore plant, a common garden plant, and "nothing sinister."
I was set at ease when I learned that the plants name is hearts-ease, that it is a cultivated smartweed, and that it was once a popular garden plant. Its also been called "kiss me under the garden gate."
By Elizabethan times, it was grown for ornamental value and today it's a garden plant.
The rock garden plant primer; easy, small plants for containers, patios, and the open garden.