Sentence examples for with a shrub from inspiring English sources

In a natural woodland, for instance, the top storey might be oak, beech or ash, with a shrub layer of hazel or holly, and an underlayer of bramble and other ground cover.

This may be contrasted with a shrub, which might be loosely defined as a woody plant with multiple stems that is, in most cases, less than 3 metres (about 10 feet) tall.

It might have occurred to a responsible homeowner that this cheap piece of metal (which I vaguely recalled seeing once on a downspout somewhere on my house) could be used for something other than bonding with a shrub.

On the south side of the house, where the shade of a spreading thornless honey locust suggested a garden room, they planted a semicircle of three kinds of silverbell trees, with a shrub layer of fothergilla (Fothergilla gardenii), coast azalea (Rhododendron atlanticum) and sweet pepperbush (Clethra alnifolia).

In gypsiferous soils covered with a shrub steppe, improved physical and chemical soil properties were registered underneath the plant canopy, where the densest and most active microbial communities were also detected (e.g. microbial biomass C averaged 531 and 202 mg kg−1 in canopy and inter-canopy areas, respectively).

Each time before drawing water, we have to ripple the waters with a shrub just to scare the crocodiles away.

The bounty has stimulated early blooms in the lower eastern half of the park, where the whitish-yellow flowers of the small forget-me-nots compete for attention with chuparosa, a shrub covered with red tubular-shaped blossoms, and carpets of chia, a mint-family relative that Zarki describes as "weird-looking with spiky dark purple flower heads".

In contrast, in habitats with limiting factors, such as periodic drought and hyper-saline soils (i.e. salt marshes), plants have abnormal development and reach heights of only 1.5 to 3 meters, with a shrub-like morphology [21].

The landscape is stark and seemingly pristine, with barely a shrub eking out a living on the rocks surrounding the tropical glacier.

There, I fell in love with H. involucrata, a shrub three to five feet tall with unusual globe-shaped buds resembling those on a peony.

I can picture Constance Spry, a vigorous pink climber, growing up the easternmost wall, with Russell's Cottage, a shrub rose with purple-red blossoms, swirled in white.