1.   We arrived at a tumbledown cottage, surrounded by overgrown rose bushes and a broken fence.

2.   The spade sank into a clump of overgrown bushes.

3.   Christine just installed lights along the front walk, we had the big spruce tree trimmed back, and the overgrown front bushes really have to go.

4.   The main door, nearly blocked by overgrown bushes and weeds, rattles in the cold Ukrainian wind.

5.   Just outside Boleslavchyk, a peaceful village of small white houses, overgrown bushes conceal heaps of broken concrete -- the remains of a destroyed missile silo.