What is "marram"

Usage examples of "marram".

There were scraps of plantlife: dust-coloured marram, trees of hard and alien nature, spicate foliage.

I put my head down and played up to the High Hole, the sixteenth, stopping there to listen as the surf pounded the shore and to watch as the high winds flung the marram grass back and forth.

Only hardy plants survived on dunes, principally the tough marram grass that is the essential ingredient for stabilizing them.

If a golfer, walking in the dunes to get a view of the sea, pulls up some marram grass, he is cursed, or so I decide to believe.

One reason that marram grass thrives in the dunes is that it rolls its leaves together, which helps prevent water loss.

There was no movement among the coarse marram grass that grew thick and sturdy amongst the rocks on the beach, and the only sound above the waves was the hoarse squawking of the seabirds, intent upon finding their dinner.

What grass had managed to gain a roothold was salt resistant marram, growing in crannies where a poor soil had gathered, and even the dandelions were wizened and sickly growths.

Small waves beat steadily against the shore and a wind from the east blew hissing through the thin, grey marram grass.

Then she was climbing through long wiry marram grass, with the dew-darkened sand sifting cold through her sandals, until the last step brought her breathless to the top of the tallest dune and the world opened before her in a great sweep of brown sand and grey sea, its flat horizon dissolving into mist where the arms of Cardigan Bay embraced the sea and the sky.

There were many shrubs and palm trees, and the dry soil had a covering of marram grass.

After this they left their horses and sought the child, and a thrall of Thorir had found it near the Marram river.

Greenish flowers bestarred bilious marram grasses, their perfumes dust-clogged.

On porches washed with saffron sunlight, elderly women sat weaving withy-baskets, while old men fashioned ropes from marram grass.

The alternatives were retracting their steps, or making a northward detour towards the sea, back into a terrain of sandy soil and marram grass.

Then they noticed that the ground was becoming firmer as it sloped gently upward, and that the spiky swamp grass was giving way to the coarse marram grass that grew on sandy soil.