Sentence examples for instead of plants from inspiring English sources

"Americans tend to mulch everything, to use mulch instead of plants to cover beds".

Pub gardens are like your own garden except they have a lot more seats and the flower beds have old pint glasses instead of plants.

Instead of plants, the basis for this food chain was a form of bacterium that derived its energy from oxidization of reactive chemicals, such as hydrogen or hydrogen sulfide, that bubbled up from Earth's interior.

Buying mint seeds instead of plants that are already producing leaves will require more time and extra work.

Instead of planting native alder, they plant Italian alder.

Instead of planting rowan or whitebeam, they plant an exotic member of the same genus (Sorbus).

Instead of planting an overhead winner, she blocked it back to Williams.

Instead of planting silver or downy birch, for example, councils throughout the UK seem obsessed by paper birch, from North America.

I coped by watching old episodes of "Heroes" and "Battlestar Galactica" instead of planting hundreds of seeds in sterile soilless mix.

Instead of planting the large stands of a single type of rice, as they typically have done, the farmers planted a mixture of two different rices.

And this year, instead of planting second crops in August, I'll test the soil, add enough lime to bring up the alkalinity and wait a week.