Sentence:  My great grandmother , I have been told , made her garden her great pride ; she cherished rare and delicate <WSD>plants</WSD> like oleanders in tubs and wall-flowers and lemon verbenas in pots that had to be wintered in the cellar ; she filled the waste spots of the yard with common things like the garden heliotrope in a corner by the woodshed , and the plantain lilies along the west side of the house . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion