La Palabra Del Día "sauce"
sauce
willow
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1: Las ramas del sauce llegaban al suelo.
The branches of the willow touched the ground.
2: Había dos patos flotando bajo el sauce.
There were two ducks floating underneath the willow.
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En Inglaterra se hacen bates de críquet de madera del sauce blanco porque tiene un tronco alto y recto.
In England they make cricket bats from the wood of the White Willow because it has a tall, straight trunk.
The weeping willow is a species native to dry areas of northern China. El sauce llorón es una especie nativa a las zonas secas del norte de China.
El sauce llorón, que en mi lengua materna llama sauce triste, si miramos mejor no esta triste en absoluto, sino un árbol muy decorativo y útil porque podemos plantar en las orillas de ríos y en una tierra húmeda y vive cien años.
The weeping willow, which in my mother tongue is called sad willow, if we look at it better, is not sad at all, but a very decorative and useful tree because we can plant on the banks of rivers and in a wet land and it lives hundreds of years.
Las raices de los sauces llorónes pueden hacer problemas con fosas sépticas.
The roots of weeping willow trees can cause problems with septic tanks!
El sauce es la más facíl árbol de propagar desde una rama plantada en el suelo.
The willow tree is the easiest tree to propagate from a branch planted in the ground.
Willows contain a plant hormone that promotes rooting so they are easy to propagate. A cut branch can actually be stuck directly into moist soil in the summer and roots will develop after only a few short weeks. To root other times during the year, you can start them in a vase of water and transplant them outside in the spring. Use cuttings that are about 1/2 to 1 inch thick in diameter and about 12 - 16 inches long. You can pound them into the ground with a rubber mallet until only a couple of leaf nodes (1-2 inches of the cutting) remain above the ground. You can also tie bundles of cuttings together (each about as thick as a pencil and about 3 feet in length) and lay them horizontally in shallow trenches. This will create a dense "fence" effect as the cuttings sprout. Remember that willows are invasive and grow massive roots. Keep new cuttings well away from driveways and sidewalks, foundations and septic systems.
Tenemos un sauce del desierto en nuesto patio que se nos fue dado como regaló de boda. Es casi 20 años de edada ahora.
We have a desert willow in our yard that was given to us as a wedding gift. It's almost 20 years old now.
El sauce llorón inspiró una gran canción del de antaño.
The weeping willow inspired a great song of yesteryear.
Este guapo está disfrutando una tarde hermosa en la sombra de un sauce.
This handsome guy is enjoying a beautiful afternoon in the shade of a willow.
Había un sauce (gatito?) a que mi abuela y yo caminabamos y recogimos las ramas con sus peludas flores. Me supuesto que es de donde el árbol consiguió su nombre.
There was a Pussy Willow tree that my grandmother and I used to walk to and pick the branches with their fuzzy flowers. I suppose that is where the tree got its name.
Mientras tomaba copas en la ribera del río, empezó a ver todo tipo de bestias raras revolcarse en el lodo debajo de los sauces.
While he was sipping the sauce on the bank of the river, he began to see all types of strange beasts wallowing in the mud below the willows.
