Sentence examples for precious plants from inspiring English sources

Before we came inside, Taylor had shown me his greenhouse, where he tends his most precious plants.

After drought restrictions limited hydrant use this year, gardeners in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, built a rainwater collection system to keep their most precious plants alive.

Two years ago, when the drought turned the leaves of street trees dry as paper and farm fields looked like wasted deserts, many of us gardeners lugged buckets of water, heavy with despair, to pour on our most precious plants.

He has made a deal with Google, the internet search firm, to use the mapping facilities of its Google Earth service to track illegal logging and mark the habitats of precious plants or birds.

I had come to hear Chris Lane, an English nurseryman renowned for his witch hazels, and David L. Culp, a Pennsylvania grower known for his hellebores and snowdrops, talk about these precious plants, which start blooming in winter and lead right into spring.

Our appreciation goes out to: Drs. John Burke, Junping Chen and Zhanguo Xin for critical reading of the manuscript; Ryan Mize, Natalie Bizzell and Gracie Mahan for technical assistance and for keeping our precious plants alive; Kay McCrary and DeeDee Laumbach for tobacco transformation; and Nancy Layland for excellent technical support.

Now someone had come for his most precious plant.

They have chopped up precious plant specimens, knocked down stalactites and dumped just about anything you can imagine beside crystal clear streams.

It has three time frames: not just 1947 and the Kelmot affair but also a flashback to Japan, where Holmes's guide (Hiroyuki Sanada) discovers the precious plant in the ruins of Hiroshima, no less.

So why not give peace a chance for once?" "We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant.... You've got to keep watering it.

In my opinion however, all the stall holders offered something even more precious than plants: they offered advice.