The humble suburban plot with plain lawns and a few bedding plants has been overtaken by sophisticated designs involving elegant furniture, exotic specimen plants and mature trees, all of which are much more valuable than their predecessors.
Passing houses, boxy and plain, with aprons of lawn, the hedges sheared neatly like military haircuts.
Ms. Buck said the race's worrisome arithmetic was as plain as counting the lawn signs on her way to a Bush rally that same day in Westlake, a suburb of Cleveland.
Plain tombstones and grass lawns are now the unchallenged norm; minimalism is the key.
I'm plain plain Henry Oana.
Her father, a pediatrician, is the founder and a senior partner in PediatriCare Associates, a practice with offices in Mahwah, Fair Lawn and Pompton Plains, N.J.
One row of straw he treated with scoops of balanced lawn fertilizer, another with plain nitrogen and a third with chicken manure.
Just beyond the parade ground, where a towering bronze statue of Dwight D. Eisenhower looks over the expanse of lawn known as the Plain, the Hudson River narrows as it turns to the south.
Yet that didn't stop the wife of the university's first president from resolving in 1876 to substitute a lawn for the wiry plains grasses surrounding Old Main, at the time the university's only building.
Unplugged and largely off the grid, the singer donned all white (think an afternoon of lawn bowling, not Druids on the Salisbury Plain) as is the custom for visitors, and joined the queues for an audience with the healer.
