The dear little thing had been here before, while yet the sticky brown buds which wrap up my leaves had not burst open to the warm sunshine.

Theo Theo actually felt his stomach lurch when he went into his victory garden and clipped a handful of sticky buds from his pot plants.

He pulled a sticky brown bud from a drooping chestnut and peeled it naked.

It has leaves the size of his hands and sticky buds and nuts.

The balsam poplar has a superb scent in about late April or early May when its small sticky buds are breaking open.

You could almost feel everyrhing growing, see the grass moving up towards the light, watch as the sticky brown buds on trees and hedges opened out into fresh green leaves.

Another peculiarity is the way the leaves grow sticky, green buds.

However, a useful distinguishing feature of this species is its shiny, sticky buds.

All's well, if only the very large and very sticky buds in the tree-tops would burst into leaf.

G-13 is characterized as having very dense and sticky resin-covered buds.