Word Finder - greenhouses

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A building used to grow plants, particularly one with large glass windows or plastic sheeting to trap heat from sunlight even in intemperate seasons or climates.

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The glass of a plane's cockpit.

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A structure that shields the operating table to protect against bacteria.

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A hot state in global climate.

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• hothouse

Greenhouses harness the sun's rays to heat the interior air.

The palm is grown as a pot-plant in greenhouses.

As regards water, its deficiency or excess is a relative matter, and although many of the minor maladies of pot-plants in windows and greenhouses controlled by amateurs depend on its misuse, water alone is probably never a primary cause of disease.

When cultivated in greenhouses liliums are subject to attack from aphides (green fly) in the early stages of growth.

The tropical plants are housed in giant greenhouses called biomes.

During summer it will grow out of doors, and then becomes bronzed, and perhaps it is prettier when light green, as it is in the greenhouses or window.

Consider installing shade cloth for larger greenhouses.

Travellers are especially struck with the beauty of some of the wild flowers, more especially with the lilies and convolvuluses; and European greenhouses have been enriched by several Formosan orchids and other ornamental plants.

Pipes should also be laid having a connexion with all the various greenhouses and forcing-houses, each of which should be provided with a cistern for aerating the daily supplies.

In their interior fittings plant stoves require more care than greenhouses, which are much drier, and in which consequently the staging does not so soon decay.

In some places movable greenhouses have been erected for market purposes, so that the soil may be exposed to the sweetening effect of the weather, when the glass roof is moved to an adjoining patch.

The white-fly is now a common pest in greenhouses, the nymphs being greenish scale-like objects on the under sides of the leaves, and adults very small white flies.

It is also applied to the strait between Mallicollo and Espiritu Santo Islands of the New Hebrides group, and the South American climbing plant Bougainvillea, often cultivated in greenhouses, is named after him.

Any garden sheds, greenhouses, pigeon cotes or anything else built in the garden.

Its three and four wheeled electric forklifts offer reduced noise and zero emissions, making them ideal garden centers and greenhouses.

It is a self-proclaimed national city of sport, and its Winter Garden is one of Europe's biggest tropical greenhouses.

Supplied as kits, Halls ' comprehensive range of free-standing and lean-to greenhouses is made from maintenance-free aluminum.

Supplied complete with cropped headed bolts & nuts for fixing into the glazing channels of aluminum greenhouses.

When fitting in wooden greenhouses use wood screws (not supplied) in place of the cropped headed bolts & nuts.

Never have I found in the greenhouses of the North such heart-satisfying roses as the climbing roses of my southern home.

Many of the Halls Greenhouses offer a choice of horticultural, toughened glass or shatter proof polycarbonate.

Just Spider Mite Killer is the easy, safe & organic way to effectively control red spider mites in greenhouses.

For this reason, shade houses and well ventilated greenhouses are frequently used for orchid growing.

Alton Amateur Greenhouses have a wide sliding door for easy wheelbarrow access.

Native plants like the chocolate lily, an aborigine of Victoria, are less complex than plants bred in today's greenhouses and gardens.

Gas, oil and solid fuel space heaters are often used for heating non-residential space such as greenhouses, as additional ventilation or venting is not always required.

Approximately two-thirds of the heat trapped by greenhouses gases is contained in water vapor, and as the average temperature on the planet continues to rise, the amount of water vapor rises in turn.

When converted to heat energy, solar power can heat water for buildings and swimming pools and can provide space heating for homes and greenhouses.

These include greenhouses that are built and installed by specialists as well as greenhouse packs that are ideal for people to build themselves.

In addition to shop bought greenhouses, it is also possible to build your own.

Since greenhouses were popular in the Victorian era, greenery is right should be part of a Bohemian design.

Most, if not all, flowers are available year-round by mail order and from local florists with large greenhouses.

This is the only bushy Coronilla that can be well grown in the open air in England, but in mild districts C. glauca, a beautiful shrub with glaucous foliage and yellow flowers, usually grown in greenhouses, may be grown out of doors.

American plants, usually grown in greenhouses and also in the summer garden.

The Chinese A. amoena, with small magenta flowers, common enough in greenhouses, is quite hardy in mild localities and rich in bold masses.

The Chinese A. indica, the ordinary Azalea of greenhouses, is hardy in many places, especially the white variety, which, even in mid-Sussex, thrives in the open air.

Greenhouses are mostly a northern hemisphere phenomenon.

Available in a range of structural types, greenhouses are designed to extend the growing season or help nonnative plants survive a different climate.

Greenhouses essentially are divided into two main categories, the attached or the stand-alone.

It also includes a section on greenhouses.

For those willing to make a larger investment, the installation of hot beds or greenhouses can improve your chances of quality vegetables throughout the winter months.

Somewhere between full-sized greenhouses and hotcaps, cold frame greenhouses are an excellent way to stretch your growing season to its very limit.

Cold frame greenhouses can serve as temporary points in a garden plant's life, or as a permanent home.

The most familiar species is P. senilis, a Mexican plant, which though seldom seen more than a foot or two in height in greenhouses, reaches from 20 ft.

In these circumstances " syringing " and " damping down " are of value in cooling the temperature of the air in hothouses and greenhouses and increasing its humidity, thereby checking excessive transpiration.

Nearby are his greenhouses, now much dilapidated, where once he grew his prize orchids.

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