While bodies fell and the investigation heated up under the charge of fifty-something Chief Detective Inspector Tom Barnaby, I was lulled into a deep state of relaxation by the comfort of the mature cast, the bursts of trees and bushes, so much Eden green, like the worst calamity the univer...
With its brush-like puffy flowers that appear throughout the year, the bottlebrush is, without a doubt, one of the best flowering shrubs for full sun. If grown in a cooler zone, bring the bottlebrush plant indoors before the first frost to overwinter it. 11. Marigold Botanical Name:Tagetes...
While the in-crowd girls in their frilly dresses gossiped and giggled and played Pin the Tail on the Donkey in the den, Penny and I sat on the turquoise brocade sofa in the living room swooning over our favourite book, Little Women. She preferred intrepid Jo, and I my namesake, saintl...
It was full of long, rambling sentences about the philosophy of their founder, a super-pure guy with a salt-and-pepper beard and long hair like ocean waves who had died just a couple of years earlier. Now, his surviving wife, of equally beatific calm and oceanic salt-and-pepper waves, ...
That same weekend we went to a wonderful small nursery I had found, and bought a few shrubs and trees and plants. This is what I saw when I came home! We added these Silver Sheen, they work great to help block the pipe, grow well in pots, and are pretty in the sunlight. When ...
andYun Nan-Gui ZhouPlateau located in southwest China are the cradle of tea plants, where there are still many living wild tea trees that are hundreds and even thousands of years old. The growth of tea shrubs requires acid soil and a warm/moist setting with at least 50 inches of annual ...
as hydrophytes may do. Geophytes can protect buds under the soil from desiccation and the mechanical stress induced by drag and lift forces derived from rapid water fluctuations (Raunkiær1934). Phanerophytes (i.e., large shrubs and trees) present overwintering (perennating) structures (i....
about it, too, because we had broken up the flow of the shrubbery from all around the perimeter of the backyard. But I felt that the shrubs were overtaking the small patio area and I wanted to look out in the kitchen/family room windows during spring and summer and see greenery and ...
During the afternoon we run down to a point where the river sweeps the foot of an overhanging cliff, and here we camp for the night. The sun is yet two hours high, so I climb the cliffs and walk back among the strangely carved rocks of the Green River bad lands. These are sandstones...
One of the most distinctive traits found within Chamaeleonidae is their split/cleft autopodia and the simplified and divergent morphology of the mesopodial skeleton. These anatomical characteristics have facilitated the adaptive radiation of chameleons t