puff-ball

Later this season Salsify's yellow symmetrical flower gives way to a huge, puffy silver/white seed head that resembles a giant dandelion, with a large white puff-ball of plumed seeds.

Rich Wolf: Where Do All the Flowers Grow? Rich Wolf 2010

Later this season Salsify's yellow symmetrical flower gives way to a huge, puffy silver/white seed head that resembles a giant dandelion, with a large white puff-ball of plumed seeds.

Rich Wolf: Where Do All the Flowers Grow? Rich Wolf 2010

In fact, there are scores of beautiful choices in my part of the country, many of which I grow: native viburnums, redbuds and dogwoods with their spring blooms; Annabelle hydrangeas with their white puff-ball flowers; winterberries, which produce bright red or orange berries in the fall; tall garden phlox; beebalm and echinacea, to name just a few.

Politically Incorrect Gardening 2010

I find it funny that for you, Winter is an "inelegance" - I've lived in Chicago for a year and I know EXACTLY what you mean, what with not being able to leave the house without looking like a puff-ball and still be freezing only to remove the layers of puff and be covered in feathers from your jacket!

Fabric and Pattern - A Dress A Day 2009

I did not hear that interview, but I would guess there was a certain equality in the puff-ball arena.

A couple of Gates-related odds and ends 2009

I have taken pictures, but -- lacking any cables with which to upload them -- you'll have to wait until this evening for photographic evidence of the puff-ball of hilarity.

random general update jasonbsizemore 2007

This is why King is considered to be such a puff-ball.

Think Progress » Larry King to Bush: ‘You Took The Lead on Iraq, the U.N. Went Along’ 2006

But then the puff-ball grows against a gravitational pull six times that of the moon.

First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006

Compared with such a growth the terrestrial puff-ball, which will sometimes swell a foot in diameter in a single night, would be a hopeless laggard.

First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006

Rove is a spent puff-ball on the underbelly of decayed vegetation.

Think Progress » “Afraid not.” 2006