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  • adjective (of plants) having tall spindly stems

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  • In addition to black mulberries, there are also white and red varieties, and most of them are your standard tall-growing tree, and do not “weep.”

    Polka Dot Cottage » Mulberry quest » Print 2010

  • In addition to black mulberries, there are also white and red varieties, and most of them are your standard tall-growing tree, and do not “weep.”

    Polka Dot Cottage: Mulberry quest 2010

  • The other half of the way, the first half as you head south from here, is more open, shaded in spots at ten in the morning by free-standing ashes, thin lines of young hawthorns, aspens, and birches no bigger around than my wrist, and the occasional tall-growing sumacs.

    Lance Mannion: 2008

  • In addition to black mulberries, there are also white and red varieties, and most of them are your standard tall-growing tree, and do not “weep.”

    Polka Dot Cottage: Mulberry quest 2010

  • The other half of the way, the first half as you head south from here, is more open, shaded in spots at ten in the morning by free-standing ashes, thin lines of young hawthorns, aspens, and birches no bigger around than my wrist, and the occasional tall-growing sumacs.

    One for the birds 2008

  • Meantime, Gardener's Supply this year launched "Garden Grids," flexible polyethylene-coated panels to ease the hassle of crafting support trellises so tall-growing vegetables don't flop.

    For a Green Thumb, Just Add Water 2009

  • However, tall-growing weeds that were not adequately controlled earlier can easily overtake thse

    Chapter 10 1981

  • The older man for the first time looked past the woman and realized that what he had taken for a continuation of the brush and scrub pine was the tops of tall-growing trees below a bluff.

    The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

  • The tall-growing climbers make a gay background to a border, and are equally valuable for trellis-work, while the dwarf varieties are first-class bedding plants, and of great service for ribboning.

    Gardening for the Million Alfred Pink

  • They appear to the greatest advantage when grown as solitary plants, away from other tall-growing flowers.

    Gardening for the Million Alfred Pink

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