They will decorate numerous gardens in Connecticut, including the Mark Twain Library in Redding.

Plants that have had the most difficulty surviving are the hybrids, exotics and special selections that, although they are often chosen to decorate gardens splendidly, do not have the inherent ability to deal with a summer like this.

At first, the Japanese used miniaturized trees grown in containers to decorate their homes and gardens.

Today many fine specimens decorate gardens and parks and public buildings.

The fashion at the time was to decorate large gardens with rockeries and grottoes and to form these from plain concrete.

"Grave markers and memorials are not objects to be stolen and sold to decorate gardens or add to Civil War collections," she said.

It has been long valued as a garden flower in Thailand and Myanmar to decorate ponds and gardens.

We've been using cloned plants to decorate our homes and gardens for years.

Many of Marinali's garden statues from the Vicenza area were removed to the Villa La Pietra outside Florence in the 20th century, to decorate gardens created there by Arthur Acton.

Holiday Finery From model trains to 18th-century angels, several cultural organizations have decorated their halls and gardens for the holiday season.