1.   Babies sleep in their car seats in the back of the church, sprouting from between decorative potted flowers as if posing for an Anne Geddes photo.

2.   A split-level with two bird feeders, potted flowers and a basketball hoop outside, the Polreis home seemed from the outside a vision of domestic harmony.

3.   Similarly, his black-and-white silhouette paintings of potted flowers, on view at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in SoHo, have a rough graffiti look.

4.   We loved the baskets filled with combinations of cut and potted flowers, artfully kept alive with frequent waterings and hidden glass vials.

5.   But it is a suffocating little garden, indeed, all tea and tarmac, despite the attempt to dress it up with small fountains and potted flowers.

6.   In the city, buildings have been draped with red banners and potted flower arrangements placed along the streets.

7.   The pope was expected to address such issues in his homily during the Mass, at an open-air altar bedecked with fir-bough garlands and potted flowers.