After Emily finished her watering, we hiked over the mountain to a patch of twenty plants, where she went through the same routine.
It seems impossible that anything can survive in this lunar landscape, yet I noticed a patch of stubby plants under a boulder.
Students with access to a patch of flowering plants, especially sunflowers, might participate in a citizen science project that tracks pollinator populations across the country.
"A patch of 250 plants is considered big these days," said State Trooper Dean Craft who, across 13 years of patrols, has watched the growers become more devious, particularly in using remote acreage of innocent owners or fruitful glades of the Daniel Boone National Forest.
You're floating through a galaxy of trees, starting out within a patch of ghostly plants that magically replenishes itself, all from the from comfort of your own browser.
Having to wait on every tee and from every fairway — or the rough, in his case — Woods made bogey from the bunker on the 14th, hooked a tee shot on the 15th that went off the trees and into a patch of ice plant and led to double bogey, and then popped up his tee shot on the 17th on his way to another bogey.
Off in the distance, Manhattan's skyscrapers glitter, the trains rumble, and the closest thing to a meadow is a small patch of plants the Parks Department has named Triangle 37.
Many of those ideas have been inspired by the hand-harvested aesthetic of Mr. Kinch, who grows acres of vegetables to use in his kitchen, unlike some other cooks who snip a few herbs from a small patch of plants for show.
Following the reasoning of Nosil et al. 2002, 2003 [ 64, 65] a 'population' is defined as all of the insects collected within a homogenous patch of plants belonging to one of the four abovementioned plant communities.
It is possible that Bromus tectorum was historically present within the "uninvaded" area and was being displaced by competitive plants, or, by chance, a patch of highly competitive plants precluded the colonization of B. tectorum in that small area.
Nearby we come across a patch of curiously short plants, all about 18 inches high, trimmed back by white-tailed deer.
