shrub

Example Sentences

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New growth on this deciduous dwarf shrub breaks bright yellow and bronze before turning a soft yellow by late spring, at which point lacy clusters of deep pink flowers appear.

From Seattle Times

While you’re waiting for the soil to dry out, start fertilizing fruit trees, flowering shrubs and other plants whose nutrients have been diluted by all this rain.

From Los Angeles Times

Garden: If you work the soil and grow flowers, shrubs or vegetables, you have a garden.

From Seattle Times

On an abandoned golf course, overgrown with shrubs and saw grass, you can hear the rushing water from 100 yards away.

From New York Times

With the right shrubs and screening plants, you can make a space more intimate without increasing your maintenance load, LaVilla notes.

From Seattle Times