Thicket

Thicket of Daylilies
Thicket of Daylilies
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THICKET - Any area that has a lot of miscellaneous undergrowth, generally of small shrubs, bushes, and vines.

1. A thicket of shrubs, small trees, etc. 2. Branches lopped off trees.
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Hedges, thickets, shrubs grown closely together
A little milk and cat food when it's a late spring; leave them to fend for themselves the rest of the time
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Stone walls, thickets of shrubs, and other short barriers also provide the garden with extra protection from wind while providing visual interest when the rest of the landscape is buried in snow.
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Most sumac species clump from their roots, forming thickets that many people perceive as being weedy. This tendency is an adaptation to their natural environment, where they must compete for a space in the sun following fires or other calamities.

Twig dogwoods hold year-round interest in their dense thickets of colorful young stems. The deciduous red twig dogwood, shown here, lights up the fall with leaves that turn red and sets a dull winter garden ablaze with its fiery colored stems.

The Sweet Wild crab (Malus coronaria, Zone 4) grows from southern Ontario down to Missouri, forming dense thickets that are late to come into bloom but, when they do, burst into a froth of white.

The Guelder Rose Viburnum opulus 'Sterile' does not even set seed, so there is no option but to propagate it from growth from the thicket. Choose a cutting about the thickness of a ballpoint pen, taken 1cm below the last node.

These peas are found in thickets on roadsides and fields in the southern states and up into Indiana and Missouri. The look like any garden pea and they have great value as a food. They can be eaten green or after they've been dried.
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Come April, they feed on tiny emerging, insects they find in the thicket of shrubs and wild cherry and sassafras saplings behind my house.

When trees are cut to the ground in this manner, it's called 'coppicing,' and gives us our word 'copse,' meaning a dense growth of bushes (or a thicket).
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These seeds will sprout new Russian olive trees that will spread by root stock and by seed. These new plants will out-compete our native plants and create a dense, thorny thicket through which I wouldn't send my worst pirate enemy.

Because it forms large thickets that choke out other vegetation, the Chinaberry has been declared an invasive plant and noxious weed in parts of the South. Check with your county extension agent before planting.

Thus, the full botanical name for my thicket of green garden sage is Salvia officinalis, or common sage. Once tempted, the desire to translate the names of species is intoxicating.

Shrub Roses are normally small, hardy fairly continuesly blooming bushes that can be used as hedge (hedges can grow to 5 or 6 feet and provide inexpensive privacy and color), thicket and trellis (trellis roses can add a beautiful accent to a yard or ...

One Native Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia) Is well-known throughout the Appalachians, growing so densely on mountain balds that locals call the impenetrable thickets "laurel hells.

Flag - This is a marginal plant and is characterized by tall, thick leaves that look like swords. They should be planted in the shallower areas of a larger
garden ponds and even do well in the muddier places. They will create a dense green thicket, ...

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