How to Use foliage plant in a Sentence

foliage plant

noun

• As spring growth begins, now is a good time to give foliage plants a fresh start.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• Trim overgrown stems of foliage plants to make cuttings.
  — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2023
• Add the tropical look to the landscape with heat-loving foliage plants.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 May 2018
• Later as new growth begins foliage plants can be reshaped to the ideal size and form.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• Fill this planter with flowers, herbs, or foliage plants and use it to lend privacy to a deck or patio.
  — Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 June 2023
• Mainly a foliage plant, Hostas are perfect for shade gardens with moist soil.
  — Lauren Smith McDonough, House Beautiful, 25 May 2022
• This lush foliage plant is another easy-to-care-for option.
  — Jennifer Aldrich, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Nov. 2021
• In bright light, this foliage plant offers small creamy-white flowers along with its waffle-like foliage.
  — Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2023
• Give weak and thinning foliage plants a spot outdoors to recover.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 28 Apr. 2018
• Reshape taller tree form foliage plants and remove declining limbs.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 28 Apr. 2018
• Once grown as a foliage plant with small, light green leaves and somewhat succulent stems, the artillery fern has escaped and shows up in flower beds and container gardens.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 11 Sep. 2021
• Caladium and coleus are colorful foliage plants that are good sources of color for the summer shade garden.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 16 Apr. 2020
• This fun foliage plant gets its common name from its arching, threadlike, grassy leaves, which resemble fiber optic wire.
  — Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Jan. 2023
• This fun foliage plant gets its common name from its arching, threadlike, grassy leaves resembling fiber optic wire.
  — Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2023
• Athena head planter: Mount this piece on any vertical surface and then fill it with trailing or upright foliage plants to mimic hair for an elegant or whimsical look.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2019
• Repot foliage plants that have outgrown their containers.
  — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2023
• Consider using foliage plants for shady landscape sites.
  — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2023
• Sitting just beside the visitor entrance there is a 40-foot long and 15-foot high living wall filled with a wild assortment of tropical foliage plants – peperomias, lipstick plants and a whole lot more.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 2 Feb. 2018
• Although it is commonly used as a landscape groundcover in Zone 7 and warmer, this foliage plant makes a terrific houseplant most anywhere that receives a moderate amount of light.
  — Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Jan. 2023
• Good fillers include salvias, verbenas, ornamental peppers, and wax begonias, as well as foliage plants like parsley or licorice plants.
  — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 13 Aug. 2018
• It’s actually not a bamboo at all but rather cane cuttings of Dracaena sanderiana, a foliage plant that’s native to tropical Africa.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 20 Apr. 2021
• Native to tropical Africa, the lucky bamboo plant actually is a cutting of Dracaena sanderiana, a foliage plant.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 18 Apr. 2023
• Transplant root bound foliage plants into larger containers.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 30 June 2018
• Perhaps the best remedy is to apply a liquid foliage plant fertilizer that contains all the nutrients every other week for two or three applications.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Oct. 2021
• Leafy tropicals and other foliage plants including begonias, caladiums, coleus, cannas, ferns, dracaenas and philodendrons can be used for dramatic effect in the shade container.
  — Adrian Higgins, sacbee, 11 May 2018

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024