It is the second home for all the new buds of the village.

For best results cut back branches that will bear flowers when the new buds are about a half-inch long.

Leaving the dead flowers on may provide some winter protection for the new buds.

They are covered by trees that blaze with the yellow and purple of new buds.

They breed during the summer and autumn, laying their eggs inside new buds.

The new buds and leaves are eaten as a vegetable.

The air was good and clean; the new buds were fragrant on the hill.

In the spring new buds will appear on the trees.

On me bare branches of the trees tight new buds waited to spring into life.

"But in a home situation," he said, "it's pretty difficult to get new buds to develop on the stem."