Meanings of hothouse plants in English

Under the dome will be a constant display of hothouse plants.

She loved these wild wood-flowers much more than gaudy exotics or rare hothouse plants.

What would be held as the most delicate hothouse plants in England here formed a brilliant carpet in their wild luxuriance.

Overhead the great trees were arched together and interlaced, their lower branches set with flowering orchids like hothouse plants upon a window-ledge.

They must be self-won, or they are no more than hothouse plants which shrivel together in the cold blast of an east wind.

Inside the beautiful old house the atmosphere was warmed by hot pipes, and scented with the fragrance of hothouse plants, banked together in every corner.

We, with the ready adaptability of seamen, soon got accustomed to the bleak, bitter weather, but the Kanakas wilted like hothouse plants under its influence.