Sentence examples for kill flowers from inspiring English sources

Because the bride hates to "kill" flowers, she carried a bouquet of tillandsia, an unusual, spiny gray-green bromeliad that feeds off air.

The United States Composting Council, meanwhile, warned in May that grass clippings from lawns treated with Imprelis should not be composted because the chemical survives the process and can kill flowers and vegetables that are treated with the compost.

Blackcurrant flowers in early spring and spring frost can kill flowers (Dale 1987).

Cut daffodils and hyacinths can release chemicals that kill flowers sharing the same water.

And my antipathy towards it wasn't merely philosophical and aesthetic, but practical: I learned from an early age that I'm a sort of inverse ET, killing flowers at touch.

Foods and fruits release ethylene gas, which kills flowers, so they should not spend much time in a cooler with food, but would be better in a cool dark place, in cool water.

Jack killed flower sellers.

"There's so much competition, they're killing flower shops and they're killing each other," said Mr. Park, 52, who bought Woodside Florist on Roosevelt Avenue, under the No. 7 train's stop at 61st Street, in 2003.

The darkened skies created by this impact may have also killed flowering plants that Nymphalids depended on, Wahlberg says.

This tends to disrupt the growth enough to prevent flowering or to kill existing flowers.

But the old saying only goes so far, as many of you already know -- let a hundred flowers bloom but no flower can haul off and kill another flower.