Sentence examples for plants struggle from inspiring English sources

And carnivorous plants struggle to survive in a place where heavy rainfall washes away most of the soil.

Summer blackouts are spreading across Chinese cities, forcing factories to close for days at a time as power plants struggle to keep up with demand from the country's many new industrial complexes and even more air-conditioners.

Unfortunately, there are a few trees which combine these two unhelpful features and under which many plants struggle, and these include Norway maple (Acer platanoides), beech (Fagus sylvatica) and crab apples (Malus).

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As the dominant forest community and ecosystem in the coasts, mangrove plants struggle and survive in these environments with remarkable morphological and physiological characteristic, for example, exposed breathing roots, support roots and buttresses, salt-excreting leaves, and viviparous water-dispersed propagules [ 1, 2].

If your melon plants struggle to produce, but you're doing everything by the book, try tilling some cereal rye in plots you plan on growing in for next season about a month before putting your plants in the ground.

Most plants struggled to grow.

Here majestic camphor trees soared 30 or 40 metres into the sky, while beneath them we and a panoply of lesser plants struggled for light, air and life.

We saw jerry-rigged water-treatment plants struggling with the worst drought in memory and railway tracks without power to work the signals.

One rainy day, he sights a stairway leading up to an elevated train track, and climbs it, discovering a patch of wildflowers and plants struggling to survive amid the tracks.

However you go about it, at some stage at the end of June or beginning of July you do need to cut back the perennials that flowered in May and June otherwise they flop and fade and smother other plants struggling to come through.