The blue became orange, the red cylinders a series of green spikes.
I correctly identified the green spikes of late crocus and soft-leaved French sorrel springing out of the rich dark earth.
The inflorescence is a dense cluster of green or brown spikes packed tightly and indistinct from each other.
The woods were full of springing bluebell leaves, their long green spikes standing guard over the flowers pushing up between them.
He flung himself against them, he embraced, not the smooth body of his desires, but an armful of green spikes.
The grass was a dense carpet of short green spikes, and the slaves had spread carpets on it.
See those green spikes?
The inflorescence is an open cluster of green spherical spikes each 0.5 to 1.5 centimeters long.
Their place is made known in early spring by the green spikes that start to push up just about the same time the flowers unfurl.
Even the plump little actress who sat opposite Sybil had her pineapple, its green spikes protruding from a covered basket at her feet.
