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Overgrown

Overgrown meaning

Having large numbers of plants which have become too big, and are hence spoiling the picturesqueness of a garden. | Having grown bigger without developing maturity or changing character.

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A9 campaigners have said that Ralia junction is even more treacherous than usual because contractors have ignored safety calls to trim back overgrown trees to improve sight lines for motorists joining the fast section of road.

A CO Carlow landowner was confronted by gardaí when he attempted to cut what he felt was a dangerous, overgrown hedge.

A disused and overgrown cemetery, which is hidden in plain sight between the north and south bound lanes of the Hume Highway north of Holbrook, will have its history remembered early this year.

A lot of work goes into maintaining the greenery while avoiding overgrown grass and trees.

And he doesn't have too many kind words about the management company, adding: "It's true they don't do much, and sometimes the whole place is overgrown, but it's an argument that's difficult to win.

An extensive search was carried out in an overgrown allotment plot.

A spokesperson for the club said: “If the boating lake is left to its own devices then it becomes overgrown with weed and algae, soon it will support no life at all.

Creepy Lurker Guy: The following was witnessed by my brother: Guy across the street tries to mow his overgrown lawn with an electric mower.

Gaikwad points across the road from the petrol pump to an overgrown plot surrounded by a vista of buildings.

Her two foot-long horns were intimidating, but once she had a chin rub she showed off that she was nothing more than just an overgrown puppy at heart.

HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (AP) — Kevin Houston scanned the Michigan street where his fixer-upper and older homes bridge gaps between the vacant, overgrown lots and abandoned, ramshackle houses, boarded-up businesses and potholed streets of Highland Park.

If the plants are misshapen or overgrown, you may want to prune them more aggressively now to correct their structure and sacrifice flowers for summer.

It looked at claims for overgrown plants which had not been trimmed, the failure to maintain missing or damaged traffic signals, or other traffic signs, uncorrected potholes, excessive oil or gravel and faded road paint markings.

It’s the giant Stormbird menacing from above, or more machines bursting through a dilapidated tunnel overgrown with vines.

Mitchell Montgomery said he knew there was something curious about his new home when he moved in last year, surrounded as it was by empty streets and overgrown lots — and priced below the going rate for many rental houses in Niagara Falls.

Ms. Reyna came from Mexico at 19 and lived for two decades in Houston before buying land from Colony Ridge on an overgrown cul-de-sac for $52,000.

Pittsburgh’s own central park is located in West Oakland on a once overgrown hillside.

Residents said they pay a collective £10,000 annually for gardening, but said hedges are left overgrown and work often unfinished, prompting many to do it themselves.

The former site of The Benbow pub in Intake has become an overgrown and rubbish-strewn wasteland – become a site for fly-tipping and drug users.

The issue was raised and is in the South End Community Plan from 2010, with drawings showing planters and a community garden on the overgrown wedge in front of the school.