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Gardening with Confidence - gardening advice Category: Agriculture and Industry > Gardening terms Date & country: 23/06/2018, USA Words: 472

Color Tracer
A coloring agent added to many commercial fertilizers, so the horticulturist knows there is fertilizer in the solution.

Compacton
Soil condition that results from tightly packing soil; compacted soil allows for only marginal aeration and root penetration.

Compost
Compost, also called humus, is a soil conditioner made up of partly decayed organic material, usually consisting of plant materials such as leave and pine needles, plus manure and soil.

Cole crops
Is simply the members of the cabbage family-broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, collards, kale, and kohlrabi. It’s easy to remember because they grow in spring and fall when the weather is cole

Cold snap
A cold snap is a sudden drop in temperature, usually during the spring, and may cause damage to already blooming and leafing plants.

Cold-hardy
Cold-hardy refers to zone-specific perennial flowers, shrubs, and trees that can survive cold and/or subfreezing temperatures and return for another growing season.

Cold Frame
a four-sided frame of boards with a removable glass or plastic top. The frame is placed on the ground and is used to house, protect, and harden off seedlings and small plants, without artificial heat.

Coir
A fiber that is extracted from the husk of coconuts, and used a liner for hanging pots, window boxes, etc. to keep potting soil in place.

Crenate
With obtuse or rounded teeth which either point forwards or are perpendicular to the margin

Crop Rotation
The practice of growing a succession of different crops on the same land in order to deter weeds, pests, and diseases.

Cross-pollinate
Pollinating two plants having different ancestry.

Crown
The part of a herbaceous perennial at or just below the soil level where the roots converge to form woody tissue from which the buds for new stems grow. The top of the head of a tree.

Cutting Propagation
Propagation by cuttings is taking a piece (cutting), either a stem or root section, of a plant and transplanting it.

Cutting Garden
Growing a garden to routinely cut the flowers to enjoy indoors.

Culture
The basic needs and conditions that a plant requires in order to thrive.

Curb Appeal
Curb Appeal.

Cubic Foot
Volume measurement in feet

Cultivar
A cultivated variety from a plant that grows naturally in the wild. A Nativar is a term catching on to refer to a cultivated regional native. In common garden jargon, these are not popular terms.

Cymes
A broad, flat-topped inflorescence in which the central flower is the first to open.

Days to Maturity or Harvest
The length of tim from when the seed germinates to the harvesting.

Dampling-off
Disease that attacks young seedlings and cuttings causing stem to rot at base. Damping off is a fungal problem that causes young seedlings to collapse at the soil level and die. It’s caused by contaminated soil, overcrowding, or excessive moisture.

Deep watering
Thoroughly soaking a plant so the roots get a good soaking is referred to as deep watering.

Deer Resistant
Deer resistant plants are those that are less likely to be eaten. But, if a deer is hungry enough, they will eat anything. Wildlife browsing habits change from region to region and season to season. Environmental conditions such as droughts, fires or development can have dramatic and unpredictable effects on wildlife feeding habits. Animals are more likely to eat tender new growth. Younger animals are more likely to taste a new plant in a garden than mature animals.

Delivered leaf mold to Helen's Haven Leaf Mold
Leaf mold is the result of letting leaves sit and decompose over time. It is dark brown to black, has a pleasant earthy aroma and a crumbly texture, much like compost. In fact, leaf mold is just that

Deplete
Exhaust soil of nutrients, making it infertile

Depurative
Herbs considered to have purifying and detoxifying effects.

Dessicatte
Cause to dry up. Insecticidal soap desiccates its victims.

Determinate
Referring to tomatoes where growth of the plant is limited.

Deciduous
Plants that drop all their leaves at the end of a growing season. Deciduous plants drop their leaves in fall and winter.

Decussate
In botany, leaves cross or intersect each other or in whorls of three.

Dead-heading
Dead-heading is cutting off the spent flower heads on plants after they have bloomed. Deadheading is cutting off a plant’s spent flowers.

Dead-leafing
Dead-leaving is removing the leaf die-back or cutting off unattractive plant leaves.

Dead Spot
An area of your lawn or on a plant this is dead.

Disease Resistant
Referring to how well a plant either resists or tolerates pests.

Disease
Any abnormal condition in a plant that interferes with its growing processes.

Dioecious
Having distinct male and female organs on different plants within the same species.

Direct Sow
Planting seeds directly onto the ground.

Dibbler
A simple tool used by gardeners to poke a hole in the ground for planting.

Dimorphic
Occurring in or representing two distinct forms.

Dorment
A plant in an inactive growth state.

Double Digging
I do not practice I do anymore. First dig 18 inches, set it aside. Then dig 18 inches more.

Dripline
A line around a plant directly under its outermost branch tips

Drought Tolerant
A plant that can withstand longer periods of time without irrigation or precipitation.

Drupe
A fleshy fruit, with thin skin and a central stone containing the seed. Examples are plum, cherry, almond, or olive.

Drift
A strategic grouping of plants in the landscape forming a drift.

Drip System
A very efficient watering system that employs a main hose with small water emi1ters.

Drainage
Way to empty soil of excess water

Dwarf
A smaller variety of a plant.

Earthing
The process of absorbing the Earth’s free flowing electrons from its surface through the soles of ones feet.

Ecosystem
A comunnity of animals, plants, and microorganisms.

Edging
Edging.

Equinox
The point at which the sun crosses the equator and day and night are each 12 hours long; the equinox occurs twice a year, in spring and fall.

Erosion
The wearing down of materials, such as moving water, rain and wind.

Espalier
The practice of pruning a plant to grow in a single plane.

Exfoliating
When the bark of a tree or shrub has a peeling pattern. Crape Myrtles are a classic example.

Fastigiate
A tree’s growth habit where the branches of the plant are erect and parallel to the trunk.

Fairy Ring
A naturally occurring ring of mushrooms.

Fast-draining
Sandy, gravelly, or light-textured loam soils tend to be fast-draining soils that allows water to pass through quickly, and doesn’t stay wet for an extended period of times.

Fairy Garden
A garden in miniature. The design includes dwarf or small plants and to scale accents to give the illusion that fairies occupy the garden.

Fertilizer
The three top nutrients needed in the soil NPK

Fertilizer Burn
Over fertilization

Feed
Deliver nutrient to the plant via roots or foliage.

Female
Pistillate, ovule, seed-producing.

Fibrous Roots
A highly branched root system that occupies a large volume of soil around the plant’s base.

Floriculture
The science of cultivating flowers or flowering plants.

Flat
Shallow, three inch deep container, often 18 by 24 or 10 by 20 inches with good drainage, used to start seedlings or cuttings.

Foundation Plant
A plant used to hide the foundation of a home.

Foilar Feeding
Misting fertilizer solution which is absorbed by lilt foliage. Best to do when first turning on your lights.

Foliage
The leaves or more generally, the green part of a plant.

Frost Tolerant
A plant that can withstand a light frost and survive.

Fragrant Garden
A fragrant garden is designed around fragrance. A fragrant garden can become a place to spend the evening with a glass of wine. The fragrance garden could also serve as your cutting garden, allowing you to bring these flowers inside to enjoy. Plant where the scent can be approached most–under a window, near the back patio, or the path leading to the front porch.

Fragrant
Having a pleasing scent from a plant or plant parts.

Fungus
A lower plant lacking chlorophyll which may attack green plants; mold, rust, mildew.

Gardening with Confidence Crepe MurderCrepe Murder
Crepe Murder is a copy-cat crime of improper pruning of Lagerstroemia spp.

Gazebo
A gazebo is a structure, either freestanding or attached to a garden wall, roofed, and open on all sides, to provide shade, shelter, or as an ornamental feature in a landscape.

Gardening with Confidence CompanionsCompanion plant
A companion plant, is a plant that goes well with another in terms of height, texture, color, or fragrance. This also can refer to two plants that benefit each other in terms of health, such as keeping insects away. A good example of companion plants is tomatoes and marigolds, with the marigolds reducing cutworms populations that attack tomatoes.

Garden
A garden is anything you want it to be.Create your style and a place that is a true expression of who you are.

Garden Conservancy
Garden Conservancy.

Gardening with Confidence Carl LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus
(1707-1778) Carl Linnaeus, Father of Taxonomic Botany

Gall
An abnormal swelling of plant tissue, caused by injury or by parasitic organisms such as insects, mites, nematodes, and bacteria. Parasites stimulate the production of galls by secreting chemical irritants on or in the plant tissue.

Gene:
Part or a chromosome that influences the development of plant; genes are inherited through sexual propagation. Genetic make up the sit of genes inherited from parent plants. Also, my neighbor.

Genus
A hierarchical level in plant naming. Genus comes below family and before species.

Geotropism
The effect that gravity has on plants.

Germination
The transformation processof a seed developing into a young plant.

Girdling
The removal of bark from around the entire circumference of a branch or trunk of a tree.

Girth
The size of something measured around the middle. When measuring a tree, it’s typically measured at check height.

Greenhouse
A building or “house” that is protected from the elements to winter-over tender plants or to start seeds.

Greening-up
Greening up refers to plants and shrubs that are beginning to put out new growth in the spring.

Ground Cover
Plants that are low growing to the ground.

Green Manure
Green manure refers to turning a cover crop into the soil.

Green Roof
A roof covered with living plant.s

Graft
A type of propagation in which two separate plants are joined together to benefit from the ideal creatures of each. A good example, is grafting conifers on Abies firma.

Guttation
Guttation is the exudation of xylem sap that accumulate on the tips or edges of leaves of some vascular plants, such as grasses. Not to be confused with dew, which condenses from the atmospher onto the plant surface.

Gymnosperm
A vascular plant that produces seeds that are not protected in an ovary. A good example is conifers.

Hardpan
A hardened impervious layer, typically of clay, occurring in or below the soil and impairing drainage and plant growth.

Hardscape
The nonliving or man-made fixtures of a planned outdoor area–walls, gazebos, paths, etc.

Hardy Annuals
Hardy annuals are annuals that complete their life cycle in one year, but are cold-hardy enough to take frost. They can be planted in fall in mild climates or earlier in spring while night temperatures are still frosty (such as pansies and snapdragons.)

Hardiness
The ability for the plant to endure difficult conditions within their range. (See zone.)

Harden-off
Harden-off refers to the process of gradually acclimating young plants from being grown indoors. Too much sun, wind, and low humidity can damage seedlings slowly introduced to these outdoor conditions. Hardening off is as close to weaning as you can get with plants. Those that are grown rapidly in a greenhouse may fail if planted outdoors. They need to harden off. Move them outdoors for a few hours each day so they can become accustomed to the temperature and humidity of life outside of the greenhouse.

Ha-Ha
– A sunken wall or ditch with one side being a retaining wall, These were used in England to divide lands without interrupting the beauty of the landscape, yet keepings animals within their bounds.