When he barks an instruction, he expects it to be followed.

My clerk would bark instructions in a semi-polite grunt then promptly hang up.

His body language, the way he barked instructions and encouraged his team, showed who was in charge.

Coaches bark instructions from the sidelines, despite clear evidence showing that this undermines the ability of players to make decisions for themselves.

Every time he barked an instruction from the dugout, his players seemed to do the opposite.

They were expert in close-to-shore navigation, fishing, cooking, and eating in the bays and harbours in their bark canoes.

They built bark-covered conical shelters, and traveled in exquisitely designed birch bark canoes.

Dugouts were stronger, faster, and more efficient than previous types of bark canoes.

In his life, he worked as a guide, a trapper and woodsman, and was a skilled craftsman and artisan who excelled at constructing birch bark canoes.

It barely makes it out of the box before it snaps in half and lumps of what look like bark chips bulge out.

Loose materials such as bark chips, gravel and chippings, need the least preparation and are quick to put down.

I use a mix of sphagnum moss, coarse bark chips and a dash of potting compost.

Fresh mulches of bark chips or sawdust will rob the soil of available nitrogen for the plants, which stunts the growth.

It may be permanent (e.g. plastic sheeting) or temporary (e.g. bark chips).

Or put straw or bark mulch round the crowns as you might strawberries.

Hiding the membrane under a decorative layer of composted bark mulch always works well.

If you do buy them now, store them in their nets in a cool, dark, dry place, lightly covered in loose bark mulch or something similar.

A few inches of compost or bark mulch over the crowns should be enough to keep out the cold.

Aside from hard paths, you may want to plan in some pathways of bark mulch to wind through planted areas to give a wild look.

Elegant dry finish with a touch of cedar bark.

Some buildings have applied cedar bark sheathing, still remarkably intact.

They were constructed from maple or cedar saplings and covered by elm or cedar bark.

They could be attached to traditional regalia and cedar bark hats as status symbols, or they were also made into shirts.

She was renowned for her blankets and for sewing baskets of spruceroot and cedar bark.

The leaves go from bright yellow to orange and then an intense red, before dropping and revealing the textural peeling bark beneath.

On the other hand, if you are a very tidy gardener you may not want sheets of peeling bark that rip off in a gale and lie around like eco-litter.

Plant it where the sun will backlight the peeling bark in winter.

As the plant ages, the stems often develop attractive peeling bark.

Young, vigorously growing trees are more prone to producing peeling bark than mature individuals.

It has rough bark and as a general rule with arbutus, the smoother the species' bark the less well it responds.

Birds will find insects in the cracks and corrugations of rough bark on plants and trees.

Most species are found in leaf litter, nooks in rough bark or crannies in fences, but the harlequin has a penchant for coming indoors in their thousands.

All have marks on their inner arms where the rough bark of the palm trees rubbed their skin.

Reaching up to 40 metres (130 ft) high, it has rough bark on its trunk and branches.

This makes a smaller scar, which will heal quickly to leave virtually no mark on a continuous smooth bark.

Then select smaller sticks for arrows and chalk a round target on to a tree with a smooth bark.

It has smooth bark with large, unusually shaped, sheets flaking off.

It may grow to between 4 and 12 metres in height and has smooth bark.

Leaf bases are persistent or shedding to leave smooth bark.

They strip bark from trees to get at the soft tissue beneath.

They carry a virus that has devastated red squirrels, prey on songbird nests and strip bark from trees such as oak and beech, stopping them growing.

Red squirrels also strip bark from saplings, but perhaps not to the extent that the greys do.

It will strip bark in a search for scale insects.

This will take out the weight, so it doesn't rip away from the trunk before you are ready, stripping bark with it.