Sentence examples for bare foliage from inspiring English sources

Shimmering waves and intricate ironwork, façades of decaying masonry and the stark outlines of bare foliage are transformed into furious abstractions of inner agony.

Too much pruning eventually will produce a plant that is woody and bare of foliage.

The use of olive tints, which reduce visibility against bare ground and foliage, began during World War I.

The wind-whipped, serpentine branches are timeless, either set against chilly bare skies or thick foliage.

Even in summer there are few leaves on the trees that the cormorants roost in – the foliage has  been stripped bare by the birds' guano.

3) Do not waste water on foliage or the bare soil between plants.

Eight-inch spears of asparagus had appeared in clusters all over the wide, bare fields — no leaves, no foliage, just slender, sharp-pointed shoots.

In the world of business, at least, wouldn't it be better to strip away all this foliage and lay bare what's really happening?

In his 1981 monograph of the genus Banksia, Alex George noted that despite a superficial resemblance to B. marginata, its bare old cones and stouter foliage indicated a closer relationship to B. integrifolia and B. saxicola, although it lacks the latter species' whorled leaf arrangement.

The colorful basal foliage clumps remained and decorated bare winter borders.

When the foliage drops in fall, the bare branches look like a straw broom that has been used to sweep up blood.