Sentence examples for popular plants from inspiring English sources

They're very popular plants, so a small one won't set you back more than £15 at a garden centre.

Succulents, the popular plants that seem to thrive on air and abuse, are jewels in the hands of Andreea Avram Rusu, a Brooklyn architect and designer.

Titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum): one of the most popular plants with visitors to the Eden Project, it flowers only once, for 48 hours, and smells of rotting meat, hence its common name of 'corpse flower'.

So destructive is the beetle that bans on an array of popular plants grown in Europe, including cherry trees, rhododendrons, and even cut roses from the Netherlands, are under consideration by federal officials, said Faith Campbell, a senior policy representative for the conservancy.

The monotypic eastern North American Cymophyllus fraseri, with white inflorescences, is sometimes grown in shady wildflower gardens, and Eriophorum (cotton grasses) and the whitetop sedges, Rhynchospora section Dichromena (genera with a large number of species may be divided into sections), are popular plants of bog gardens.

Some popular plants are specified here with their respective common English names in brackets as examples.

One of the most popular plants-as-curiosities is the Dracula orchid, so named for its ghoulish-looking face.

According to Heligan, a popular plant with visitors is the skunk cabbage.

The most popular plant for screening in the Northeast is probably arborvitae (sometimes called eastern white cedar), an evergreen that is easily pruned and is fast-growing.

By late Monday the storm, designated Toraji, after a popular plant in North Korea, had winds of up to 68 m.p.h. and gusts of up to 90 m.p.h., the Central Weather Bureau said.

Producers say that between 2007 and 2010 the region's production of the most popular plant, lavandin, used in soaps, perfumes, insect repellents, essential oils and the celebrated herbes de Provence – has halved.