When the snow slid back at last, the grass looked as if it were waking from a long, sodden nap, and all but the stoutest plants, even the yuccas, had been bulldozed.
Once the risk of frost has passed, these stout, robust plants can be transplanted straight out into beds and borders without any mollycoddling.
Also a stout lady sprinkling plant food on the ground around the cherry trees.
We never exchange names, but she immediately plants her stout spade and sweeps three of us into her house, where we are seated cross-legged and shoeless on rugs around her kitchen, that locus of Ladakhi family life and social pride.
Some plants grow short and stout while others can grow up to six feet tall.
A previous study comparing the pollination ecology of Irish and Spanish populations has shown that a range of generalist pollinator species visit R. ponticum flowers in both ranges, although visitor communities are dominated by different species in Ireland versus Spain, and that a greater volume of nectar is produced in plants from introduced populations (Stout et al. 2006).
There's fennel salami, a tweed-jacketed relative of finocchiona, but instead of aniseedy seeds, this stout, fatty sausage is flecked with the plant's green fronds.
Busemeyer and Stout [Busemeyer, J. R., & Stout, J. C. (2002).
For better handling, given the more potent power plant, the Mini Cooper S gets stouter anti-roll bars and firmer spring settings.
We used this sampling procedure as previous work has shown that vast majority of pollinator visits occur within-plant and that the majority of seeds land close to maternal plants (Stephenson et al. 2007; Stout 2007 b ).
