When I saw the soft green shrubs covered with their delicate pinky-white balls, I remembered the one I had planted a few years ago on the farm in Maryland.

Camellias here can grow as high as 12 to 18 feet, and the sight of one of these splendid shrubs covered with white or rose-pink blossoms, set off by glossy green leaves, is breathtaking.

The stems of the shrubs are dark when mature, covered with downy or silky hairs (tomentum) when young.

A few weeks ago, Mr. Jurantoski was struck by S. gracilistyla, a low-spreading shrub just covered with dense inch-long catkins.

As they came closer, Niall saw that Simeon seemed to be interested in a twisted grey shrub covered with spiky globes, each one about three inches in diameter.

This is a shrub covered in fernlike foliage made up of fronds of small leaflets.

How often was he appalled by some shrub covered with snow, which like a sheeted spectre beset his very path!

Crataegus douglasii is a compact erect bushy shrub covered in fan-shaped green leaves with teeth along the distal margin.

Olive was still lying near the shrubs, covered by a blanket.

It is a small shrub covered with short hairs which grows up to a height of 50 cm.