meadowgrass


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Noun 1. [画像:meadowgrass - any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture]meadowgrass - any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture
family Graminaceae, family Gramineae, family Poaceae, Graminaceae, Gramineae, grass family, Poaceae - the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane
grass - narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
foxtail, foxtail grass - grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes
manna grass, sweet grass - any of several moisture-loving grasses of the genus Glyceria having sweet flavor or odor
Agrostis alba, Poa nemoralis, wood meadowgrass - slender European grass of shady places; grown also in northeastern America and temperate Asia
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Common annual weeds in our gardens include chickweed, nettles, hairy bittercress, groundsel and annual meadowgrass. The quickest method is to use a hoe but go easy - tiny annual seedlings only need a light touch to be felled.
Dig in for the war on weeds
The experiment was carried out as follows: 3 g of seeds of perennial ryegrass, fescue grass and meadowgrass were each separately planted into 3 plastic containers fully filled with 1 kg of substrate.
THE INFLUENCE OF ROAD MAINTENANCE SUBSTANCES ON THE GROWTH OF GRAMINACEOUS PLANTS
If there's too much annual meadowgrass and other wild grasses, and too few sown species like perennial ryegrass, it is time for action.
Time to tend the grass
Hundreds of new trees and over 20 acres of meadowgrass were planted around the fringes of the sports areas to soften the boundaries with the rest of the Park and to benefit and encourage wildlife and biodiversity.
The Hub, Regent's Park: back in 2001, the existing sports pavilion and pitches within Regent's Park were in a very poor condition, and a sports development masterplan was commissioned by The Royal Parks to look at existing provision and use, and to consider the future of sport in the Park
Common meadowgrass with feathery heads grew there; wild parsley with its delicate filigrees; ground ivy with rough wrinkled leaves, and dead nettles smelling of mint.
Maturing into childhood: an interpretive framework of a modern cosmogony and poetics
The grubs attack the roots of ryegrass and can cause heavy thinning of swards and their replacement by weed species such as annual meadowgrass.
Grubby nuisance

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