The splendid little plants take hold quickly and spread easily over the smallest spaces.
The acanthus and anthemion motifs of Classical relief and the lotuses of Indian relief are splendid examples of stylized plant ornament.
We don't need roots now: they make plants of us, splendid, yes, but bound to the ground, and nowadays everything is more mobile than ever, shifting quickly from one shape to the next.
A walk in the park The Botanic Gardens at the southern tip of the CBD between Alice Street and Main Drive were once the convict-era Government Gardens, and now combine lily ponds, formal flower arrangements and rainforest plants with rather splendid river views (bit.ly/ BrisbaneBotanic; admission free).
They beheld the splendid weirdness of the century plant and the joshua tree and encountered saguaro cactus for the first time, the giant of the Sonoran desert, with its mighty fluted trunks and sagging humanlike arms".
Touring East Tremont, they came upon an address on their friend's list on Anthony Avenue and gazed, awe-struck, at a splendid, slightly forbidding stone mansion planted formidably in an otherwise ordinary neighborhood dense with mid-rise apartment buildings and two-family houses.
Over the centuries, exotic species of animals and plants developed there in splendid isolation, and the island has long been a favorite for eco-tourists.
Filled with potted plants and flowers to splendid effect, the patio is the perfect perch from which to gaze at the verdant (seemingly unpopulated) valley below.
Despite a few mixed borders, this is not a flower garden, but a plant collection with a splendid junglelike feeling where one can walk for over an hour without covering the same territory.
Set at the margins of the river bank and in the fine compositions of hanging gardens, the smaller plants of the Narrows showcase the splendid gardening hand of nature.
