evergreen - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • include: HEDGES Continue planting hedges and container-grown plants, including evergreens and conifers.
  • remain: Grown warm through the winter the plant would remain evergreen.
  • grow: This fat growing evergreen develops long shoots with small adhesive rootlets.

Adjective modifier

  • hardy: Salad Burnet Sanguisorba minor is a hardy evergreen perennial which forms a low mound to about 18 " in well drained soil.
  • native: Hedera helix, is the only native British evergreen climbing shrub.
  • more: A " high hedge " is a line of two or more evergreens with a height of more than two meters above ground level.
  • other: Don't have too many conifers or other evergreens in a garden or planting, no more than about a third of the total.
  • tall: East Family Area - Green A tall evergreen or healthy shrub.
  • few: The garden is lawned, except for a very small patch approximately 1 meter circular which we have put a few evergreens into.

Modifies a noun

  • shrub: Evergreen shrub bears red young leaves which turn to glossy green edged creamy silver.
  • hedging: The property is enclosed by evergreen hedging and fencing.
  • foliage: White tinged pink scented flowers among congested evergreen foliage.
  • azalea: This species is very common wherever the hosts, the evergreen Asiatic azaleas imported from Japan, occur.
  • broadleaf: A few of the evergreen broadleaves are also in flower in December.
  • bough: The thing is, folk have been decorating evergreen boughs for a lot longer than there have been Christmas trees in folk's houses.

Modifying Another Word

  • mostly: Rhododendron Mostly evergreen shrubs, many cultivars and species in all sizes and colors.
  • mainly: An easy stroll through a mixed, mainly evergreen, plantation.

Noun used with modifier

  • semi: This is a semi evergreen - will come through a mild winter without too much trouble.
  • broadleaf: Broadleaf evergreens such as rhododendrons, azaleas, and hollies need acidic soil.

Preposition: with

  • leave: Evergreens with leathery leaves can not be pruned now.

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