Sentence examples for profusion of plants from inspiring English sources

For the next decade, Mills and LeRoy tackled the landscape around the house one area at a time, creating a series of gardens, some anchored by raised beds, others sporting large containers amid the profusion of plants.

Visitors who enter the exhibition through the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory will encounter a replica of a room in Darwin's house, designed so they can look through the window, as he did, to a profusion of plants and bright flowers: hollyhocks, flax and of course primroses, what Todd Forrest, the garden's vice president for horticulture, calls "a typical British garden".

Often the profusion of plant life is more related to heat and moisture than to soil quality, even though these climatic conditions intensify both chemical weathering and the rate of bacterial action that usually improve soil fertility.

Thousands of miles across the Pacific, Hawaii's volcanic soils have nourished an exotic profusion of endemic plants and animals.

A profusion of indoor plants help cool a room, as do cleverly designed floors that conduct heat into the ground.

Even the wild asparagus, which usually hides from the sun in a profusion of other plants' leaves and stalks, was so plentiful that you couldn't miss it.

During the 1980s, the bar became, in Mr. McGettrick's words, "a town hall of sorts" for residents fighting the profusion of garbage plants.

As if this extravagant welcome weren't enough, it was followed by a trip up a glass-railed escalator, bordered with a profusion of green plants and cherry blossoms in pots, to the second-floor lobby.

The Kandalama Hotel, built in the mid-1990's along a granite rock face overlooking another ancient lake, seems to have become an organic part of the wild environment, with its sod roof and profusion of climbing plants.

If the weather is good, you can eat on the covered porch or at umbrella-shaded tables on the blue-stone-paved patio, surrounded by a profusion of potted plants, flowers, herbs and a couple of fig trees.

Nor are the Norfolk Island pines, bananas and eucalyptus to which they give way further down, with a profusion of other plants—jacaranda, mango, coffee, quinine thrown in along the way.