Steep, rocky terrain planted with olive groves gives way to sandy, marshy monotony.
Where the liberal humanism of earlier social documentary used people as its "universal" currency, "Terrain" puts plants and work implements in the foreground.
Each semester, Yost said, she and Ritter require their students to read the first chapter of John Steinbeck's "East of Eden," a rhapsodic description of the terrain and plants of the Salinas Valley that shares many of the characteristics of the landscape we were exploring, including calochortus albus, this exquisite little lily, which goes by many common names.
To feed the world's burgeoning population, producers must grow crops in more challenging terrain – where plant roots must cope with barriers.
The terrain, newly planted with tens of thousands of cork trees and more than a hundred acres of vines, suggests the Texas foothills, but the quality of the food coming out of the kitchen betrays the fervor of a true culinary evangelist out for converts.
Eutric, Calcaric and Chromic Cambisols in undulating or hilly (mainly colluvial) terrain are planted to a variety of annual and perennial crops or are used as grazing land.
Use whatever terrain, blocks, and plants you want to make the rooftop gardens of your dreams!
In rolling or sloping terrain, where contour planting is needed to control erosion and conserve moisture, the locations of the plant or row positions are determined by the contour terraces and waterways established.
Then, we'll explore the rugged terrain of a plant leaf under the scanning electron microscope.
THE best chapter is about the terrain that English plant-hunters named "the Rhododendron heartland," along the southern edge of the Himalayan massif.
