Hail destroys flowers and destroys leaves, which in a garden is bad.

Shrub pruning now would destroy flowers for next year.

But, as he stood in the grassy Valley, he saw that to turn up the earth in furrows would be to destroy hundreds of pretty, helpless flowers, as well as thousands of the tender blades of grass.

A rabid proponent of environmental destruction, Ficklin argued passionately that the federal government must act to destroy the evil prairies, flowers, and wild deer:

The searat Captain's rage knew no bounds-he stormed about the copse, destroying flowers and tearing at the foliage as he gave vent to his anger.

Three months later, after incidents of vandalism and destruction of plants, notices were installed warning that "any person stealing, pulling, or destroying flowers will be prosecuted".

Distressed by mindless vandalism that destroys trees and flowers they are keeping a watchful eye on plant life.

Destroying flowers with a Daisy, she served notice that she was not to be manacled, not even by a necklace: she was our capricious, whirligig Lill-of-the-Hill.