Recently I can't go into the dull walled garden of the flats where I live, because I've haunted it - I can see the spectre of myself walking round and round in the rain, last summer, trying to write the last pages of my novel: following my ghostly characters, Tudor lawyers walking arm-in-arm in the drizzle, talking about the trial of Thomas More.
Too much of a single variety, the books warn, will make the garden dull outside the season of the chosen plant's blooming, and draw a dense number of pests.
Perhaps your friend was hoping that perennials would look better than the ever-squattier, ever-duller snapdragons in garden centers in spring.
I was having an internal monologue rant when I was struck by the realisation - I need and like a dull, ugly time in the garden.
Ayabil's task of looking after the family's plot of onions a few minutes' walk away, across the White Volta river, which is the border with Burkina Faso, stretches out to fill long, dull days of dry-season gardening, mainly weeding and watering with buckets drawn from the river.
Designer Siew Ming Cheng bought the strips of dull plastic spikes from a gardening store; they're usually meant to keep birds and cats away but she repurposed them to keep Mr. Gropey from rubbing up on your during rush hour.
I knew zinc — the dull, slightly bluish birdbath in the garden was made of zinc — and tin, from the heavy tinfoil in which sandwiches were wrapped for a picnic.
I knew zinc the dull, slightly bluish birdbath in the garden was made of zinc and tin, from the heavy tinfoil in which sandwiches were wrapped for a picnic.
Decrying the character and "quality" of these recent newcomers, Bellamy lamented that "we cannot be the dumping ground of Europe and bloom like a flower garden". To him, "every dull-witted and fanatical immigrant" granted citizenship threatened the American republic.
President Obama's speech is used on a voiceover on a dull and uninteresting image of Kew Gardens instead the original video which would have revealed the editing breaks of different sentences to form a complete phrase.
