Sentence examples for overgrown plants from inspiring English sources

* Passion flower: Thin out overgrown plants at ground level.

Noah Goodman's office in Stanford's psychology department is practically bare except for a couple of abstract paintings propped against one wall and a few overgrown plants.

I had never been there, and it took me a few minutes to take in the spectacular shabbiness of the place, which was furnished mainly with a couple of dilapidated sofas and a great many overgrown plants.

All sorts of things are prohibited, depending on the contract: weeds and overgrown plants, cracked paint, chickens, metal roofs, perpetual garage sales and, in some cases, lawns that are anything but green, well-trimmed carpets of grass.

Jennifer did not yet know that Christopher was similarly thwarted, that, at his place uptown on Broadway, a different Susan, home from her job, was busy smoking cigarettes, watering her overgrown plants, and talking on the telephone in a haughty, supercilious voice.

In "Don Otavio," the chapter on the town of Querétaro gets to Querétaro only in the last paragraph, because Bedford wants to tell us about Mexican provincial inns: The ground floor is always a large, unkempt parlour opening into the patio without much transition, full of overgrown plants, wicker chairs, objects without visible use, birds free and caged, and a number of sleeping dogs.

Even overgrown jade plants can be pruned.

The mayor of 17 years said he discovered a river he never knew existed in his town, because it was always overgrown with plants.

In the place of manly autonomy and flight, her sliced and woven-together wheels variously suggest innards, crazily overgrown house plants and a fleshy tangle of limbs.

Singapore's Gardens by the Bay, designed by Grant Associates, Wilkinson Eyre, and Atelier Ten, is landscape as entertainment, with a grove of steel Supertrees, overgrown with plants, that provide shade during the day and light up at night.

The roof of one £10m home, registered in the name of a Saudi princess, is overgrown with plants and the signs on the ramshackle gates state it is under "24-hour manned guard".