Easily missed by the unfamiliar eye it grows into a small tree with a dappled grey trunk,stragglybranches and clusters of ovate grey-green leaves.
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In large parts of countryside, traditional hedges are growing out to form a line ofstragglyhawthorn trees.
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Oldstragglyhedgerows can thus enhance the landscape, even if they sometimes provide a diminished habitat for natural life.
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The first is the size of the region, which is a large andstragglyone.
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It has an erect andstragglyhabit, growing to between 0.4 and 1 metre high.
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On the other hand its long,stragglywool is only suitable for coarsely woven fabrics such as carpets.
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Cutting back after flowering prevents plants from becomingstraggly.
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She is tall, with long,stragglydark plaits, and never ties her bootlaces.
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As they age, plants may becomestraggly, but benefit from hard pruning after fertilizing and watering, which promotes compact, bushier growth.
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He was originally portrayed with neatly trimmed purple-grey hair, this was soon redesigned as a long,straggly, gray-black mane, and more recently into dreadlocks.
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It is a ratherstragglytree, with sharp, 36 cm long stem spines in the leaf axils.
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Plants becomestragglyand untidy with age, so should be pruned when young.
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It has an erect andstragglyhabit, growing to between 0.5 and 3 metres high.
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Due to the lack of soil material, only weak,straggly, very open spruce woods thrive here.
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It has astraggly, but rigid habit and is armed with sharp straight thorns up to 100mm long, which are modified branches.
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