Lombardy poplar

The way up to the front door was along a short drive bordered by Lombardy poplars.

Between the house and the view, but not hiding it, was a row of wonderful Lombardy poplars.

No feat of modern engineering can turn a Lombardy poplar into an oak.

I did not at least during the long period in which the inventor of Lombardy poplars continued to favor me with his explanations.

Lombardy Poplars are used as a windbreak around agricultural fields to protect against wind erosion.

They were slender whips of a hybrid Lombardy poplar, more than a dozen planted in a row along the road.

He is credited with the earliest-known introduction of the Lombardy poplar to England in 1754.

The rows of tall Lombardy poplars down its lane stood out in stately, purple silhouette against the sky.

"I like Lombardy poplars and plane trees the best, but I am still quite uneducated."

Most of the newly planted trees were black poplars and its variant, Lombardy poplars.

There was a long row of them in the orchard, with a Lombardy poplar at either end, and a hedge of lilacs behind.

Eucalyptus trees, Lombardy poplars, and a variety of conifers were emphasized because of their fast growth.

The Lombardy poplar was originally stocked in the garden, and, introduced into commerce, eventually spread throughout the United States.

This is the tree most commonly grown in Great Britain and Ireland as "Lombardy poplar".

The appeal of the tree lies chiefly in its compact, columnar form, not dissimilar to the Lombardy Poplar.

And she taught all the little poplars she knew to stand the same way, and that is why Lombardy poplars always do.

Lombardy Poplar (corner towers)

The auditorium was decorated as a Mediterranean garden complete with Lombardy poplar and literary busts set into wall niches.

By 1810, some rows of Lombardy poplars had been planted, however, the avenue itself "was too much of a morass" to be traversed on horseback.

I had hoped for weeping willows, cedars of Lebanon, Lombardy poplars, seaweeds, perhaps deer antlers.

"Why does the Lombardy poplar hold its branches straight up in the air like that, when all the other poplars hold theirs out or hang them down?"

Trees were grown for timber, or as fence posts (mainly Lombardy Poplars), or as fruit trees.

The true Lombardy poplar, selected in Lombardy, northern Italy, in the 17th century.

Notable features of Magra itself include the surrounding hills and the plantation of Lombardy Poplars.

The canal slices through the city, framed by strips of parkland studded with picnic tables and rows of Lombardy poplars standing like quills.