Sentence examples for wildflowers from inspiring English sources

Where hay rattle has stemmed the vigour of grasses, wildflowers are benefiting; one of many farming names for this plant was "poverty".

Less than an 1½ hours by car from Cape Town, it's in a peaceful village, in a landscape that's carpeted with wildflowers each spring.

The island hosts four festivals (spring, folk, literary and food) and is dotted with standing stones, hilltop forts and ruined chapels, so you can spend your days exploring, and spotting wildflowers, rare birds, wild goats, grey seals and otters.

There are thatched roofs, wildflowers in the hedgerows and a lovely country church.

All the more so when the occasional wildfire prompts such a bright profusion of wildflowers.

But the hills used to be sown with maize and the wildflowers are a sign that the workforce has left the fields fallow to toil in more profitable ones in the United States.

Wildflowers grow among the grasses and butterflies flutter against the boom of distant artillery fire.

Before you smirk, though, raise your eyes just a bit.There, amid the wildflowers and tall grass, you can make out the charred concrete floor of the Branch Davidian compound.

He was admired partly because he was so ordinary, an accidental hero.He made a return visit to Gallipoli in later life and found a trench used by the Anzacs, now overgrown by wildflowers.

Around it loom hills covered in pink wildflowers.

FOR a few days in mid-July, there really was a place where women who "smelled of wildflowers and smoke" and had "a long tumble of flaming curls around a face of rose and cream" could glance hopefully at men with "eyes of clear and calm blue that could harden to steel".