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  • It's an amazing flower; it grows in a terrain that is anything but delicate and garden-like; snow falls on the mountains every month of the year, and while the bloom itself may look fragile, the flower grows in all sorts of places, including up through the cracks in the boulders along the high mountain trails.

    Columbine 2009

  • The cemetery needs volunteers to help maintain its garden-like state, McGuckian said.

    At Rockville Cemetery, lessons for the living Sean Patrick Norris 2010

  • Rodney Paavola Outside there's a swimming pool in a tropical garden-like setting.

    Spanish Style 2011

  • As followers of Jesus, we believe God will one day fully restore creation to the garden-like state God established in the beginning.

    Sheldon C. Good: What's With All The Natural Disasters? A Christian Call To Stewardship. Sheldon C. Good 2011

  • Until then, lower bushes, more water and garden-like areas that offer respite from the barrenness and heat of the Mall are entirely welcome.

    On the National Museum of African American History and Culture: A little green around the edges 2010

  • This little Japanese garden-like creation probably took 700 years to form in its complexity that we see right now.

    Richard Preston on the giant trees Richard Preston 2008

  • This little Japanese garden-like creation probably took 700 years to form in its complexity that we see right now.

    Richard Preston on the giant trees Richard Preston 2008

  • This little Japanese garden-like creation probably took 700 years to form in its complexity that we see right now.

    Richard Preston on the giant trees Richard Preston 2008

  • The original layout, called the Old Course, meanders through a gentle garden-like landscape; an old windmill stands next to the first tee.

    Sweden Swings: A Golf Paradise 2008

  • A broad, umbrageous mass of green clothed the lower buttresses, and fringed itself away in clusters of coco palms on a garden-like stretch below, green with grass and sugar-cane, and dotted with white houses, each with its palm and banana grove, and varied by eminences which looked like long extinct tufa cones.

    The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

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