Sentence examples for accent plants from inspiring English sources

Artemisias, with their blue-green and gray-green leaves, are important accent plants, but they hail from hot, dry climates.

Standards are accent plants, and too much accent becomes disturbing or ceases to be an accent at all.

Some of the showier sedges can be used as accent plants, even in containers, but as ground covers and living mulches, they should be planted in numbers.

The most significant of these are variegated forms of several Japanese species, Carex conica, C. morrowii, and C. phyllocephala, which are grown as edging or accent plants.

Color was important to Wright, added Mrs. Nemtin, as were strong vertical accent plants, like the yellow hollyhocks that the architect planted himself near his Wisconsin house.

Several New Zealand Carex, especially C. buchananii, C. comans, C. flagellifera, and C. secta, have wiry, brown or copper-coloured leaves and are grown in mild temperate climates as accent plants under the collective name New Zealand bronze sedges.

The Thompson & Morgan catalogue offers only one variety of H. moscheutos (the dwarf Disco Belle, which grows only two feet tall), suggesting it for use as an accent plant.

"Domestica" is an upright grower, useful as an accent planting and dense enough for background screening.

"It's a very good vertical accent plant that adds color without demanding a lot of maintenance," said landscape architect Kathryn Rue of Fullerton.

"Drug," she replied in a thick Thai accent, planting her right foot on my left shoulder for leverage while simultaneously pulling my ankle into her chest to stretch a hip-flexor.

This Asian-style accent plant spreads by shallow runners and if not contained can fill a back yard with a thicket so dense you can't walk through it.