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saxifrage

any saxifragaceous plant of the genus Saxifraga, having smallish white, yellow, purple, or pink flowers
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Cook is also working on knitting the Saxifrage School not just into physical neighborhoods but also into a digital network of informal learning opportunities all around the Pittsburgh area.
Many of the encrusted saxifrages which, as their name suggests, are covered with a protective layer giving their leaves a tough, hard surface, make rosette after rosette.
Saxifraga fortunei is different to spring flowering alpine saxifrage, with rosettes of striking foliage in summer, topped with magnificent plumes of tiny star shaped cream flowers with yellow centres in October and November.
Many lemmings had burrows within the limits of the tern colony, where they fed principally on purple saxifrage (Saxifraga oppositifolia).
The five packets of summer flowering seeds - which would normally cost you more than pounds 7 - will be selected at random from a selection that includes such varieties as Delphinium Blue Dwarf, Dahlberg Daisy, Godetia, Bergamot, Convolvulus Minor, Saxifrage, Clematis, Lily, Wallflower and Cosmos.
An Explanation of America was published by the Princeton University Press in 1979, and received the Saxifrage Prize, awarded to the best book of poems published by a small or university press.
In beds mounded 6 inches high, the largest plants filled the center and the smallest plants--aubrieta, nasturtium, and saxifrage, for example--softened the edges.
Mae'r tormaen serennog (Saxifraga stellaris; starry saxifrage) a'r tormaen llydandroed (Saxifraga hypnoides; mossy saxifrage) ill dau yn tyfu yma.
Those rivals are thought to crowd out the Snowdon lily, tufted saxifrage and other rare species in this rocky habitat, where soil and nutrients are in short supply.
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