They can climb and they fiercely defend their territories (under our cotoneaster!), which extend from 200 to more than 1,000 sq metres. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: The Burren] Reference
The waxwings' rather unusual speciality is supermarket car parks because of the owners' tendency to plant cotoneaster, pyracantha or non-native rowans that are heavy with red berries. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk] Reference
The typical shrub story in the juniper steppe forests of this area may include pistachio (Pistacia atlantica), cotoneaster (cotoneaster racemiflora), Crataegus spp., maple (Acer turcomanicum), almond (Amygdalus spp.), and other species. From Wordnik.com. [Elburz Range forest steppe] Reference
A good long stretch of wall covered with a selection of the best green-leaved kind is always interesting, and never more so than during the winter months, especially if at intervals the golden Japanese jasmine is planted among them or a few plants of pyracantha or of Simmon's cotoneaster for the sake of their coral fruitage. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884] Reference
The delicate cotoneaster vine clings to the stones of it. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine December, 1895] Reference
The berries found on hawthorns, holly and cotoneaster are winter food for these birds. From Wordnik.com. [Kitsap Sun Stories] Reference
Several species of cotoneaster are suitable for cultivation in the middle and southern latitudes. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference
There are over 200 varieties of cotoneaster however the most popular for bonsai purposes are horizon. From Wordnik.com. [maple.nu - published] Reference
The gardeners will throw to croton or a cotoneaster or a sotol; you'll be told to jump in the Potomac without a rotor. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 2] Reference
Blackbirds are supposed to like cotoneaster, also the favoured food of waxwings - another winter visitor from Scandinavia. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Looking around, the garden certainly hasn't much else to offer: cotoneaster, firethorn, hawthorn, guelder rose all stripped. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Second Breeding Season Found Among Migratory Songbirds] Reference
Try Saphyr Orange or Golden Charmer next to Red Column and, as a fill-in beneath, what about the sprawling cotoneaster horizontalis?. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Isle of Wight News] Reference
I shoe store online plaguey decreed for the corruptible tayra to cotoneaster the freudian dacryon and, in iceboat, win pilotfish and marylander. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
The reason I did it that way and did not cut the lot to the ground was that in among the cotoneaster branches wound a very pretty clematis with claret coloured flowers. From Wordnik.com. [getreading - Reading Post - RSS feed] Reference
The banks under the rocks were starred with primroses, and from the rocks themselves there hung with cotoneaster the large and graceful white blossoms of that limestone-loving shrub, the amelanchier. From Wordnik.com. [Two Summers in Guyenne] Reference
Fortunately, many introduced species in parks and gardens are soft-barked and this has facilitated a modest spread from farmed landscapes into more public areas, where it grows on the likes of japonica, cotoneaster and walnut. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
For favorite evergreen shrubs that can be espaliered, Garland Nursery's Karen Hobson lists the following: waxleaf privet (Ligustrum texanum), cotoneaster parneyi, euonymous japonica (many varieties), loropetalum, ceanothus, and photinia. From Wordnik.com. Reference
But as residential architecture deteriorates into an austere sprawl, tree planting as a component of beneficial development is vanishing, apart for the mandatory weeping willow or cotoneaster on the solitary piece of land where it proved beyond the ingenuity of the developer to squeeze another house. From Wordnik.com. [WalesOnline - Home] Reference
Each, however poor, had a wild garden around it, and, where the inhabitants possessed some pride in their surroundings, the roses and the jasmines and that distinguished creeper, -- which one sees nowhere at its best but in Devonshire cottage-gardens, -- the stately cotoneaster, made the whole place a bower. From Wordnik.com. [Father and Son: a study of two temperaments] Reference
7. Plant berry-bearing plants in your garden, such as hawthorn, holly, cotoneaster and berberis. From Wordnik.com. [Feed the birds during cold snap: Plea] Reference
It is also sometimes referred to cotoneaster. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference
Mespilus cotoneaster. From Wordnik.com. [Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen] Reference
Evergreens (laurel, thyme, evergreen thorn, cotoneaster, privet, purslane). From Wordnik.com. [1.1. Forests] Reference
Corydalis nobilis, corylus species, costmary, cotoneaster, cottonwood, cowpea, coxcomb for bedding, crab cactus, crab trees, cranberry, crape myrtle, cratægus species, cress, crocus, crocus, fall blooming. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference
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