green fingers

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Then in late June, the flowers finally gave way to a mass of curled green fingers: the unmistakable shape of bananas in a bunch.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2024

But Shreim wasn't born with green fingers: he learned how to set up greenhouses by watching YouTube videos and has gathered tips and tricks from other farmers.

From Reuters • Jun. 12, 2022

To give her green fingers a helping hand she's using hi-tech sensors, which can show whether her plants need water, sunlight or a different temperature.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2022

“Bob Pirie is a man with green fingers who knows how to make money,” David de Rothschild, head of the Rothschild bank in Paris, said at the time.

From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2015

I remember the five-fingered ferns growing under little waterfalls, bobbing their green fingers as the droplets struck them.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck