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Bee Better - Garden glossary Category: Agriculture and Industry > Garden terms Date & country: 23/06/2018, UK Words: 553

Corolla
The petals of a flower are called the corolla.

Cottage Garden
A Cottage Garden is a style of garden that is free-flowing and filled with flowers.

Cotyledon
Energy storage components of a seed that feed the plant before the emergence of its first true leaves.

Core
The transformer in the ballast is referred to as the core in hid lighting systems.

Corm
Corms are similar to true bulbs, in that they contain a stem base, but they do not hold the entire baby plant. The roots growing from a basal plate are located on the bottom of the corm. (The basal plate is the base area of the bulb.) The growth point is located on the top of the corm. A corm only lasts for a single season, but a new corm will form on top of the old. Plus, “cormels” are also produced, forming around the base of the corm’s basal plate. Popular corms include gladiolas and crocus.

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.

Compost Tea
Authentic Haven Brand Moo Poo is my go-to organic tea fertilizer.

Cone
The conical fruit of pines, firs, and cedars.

Conical
Describes the shape of a tree where the base is the widest point of the plant and it gradually becomes more narrow at the top.

Conifer
A group of cone-bearing plants.

Container Garden
Planting fruits, herbs, pollintor plants, etc in pots instead of in the ground or raised bed.

Cool-season crops
Plants that tribe during cooler temperatures.

Cool-season grasses
Cool-season grasses are those grasses actively growing when its cool, and its green in the summer, as well as, the winter. Common cool-season grasses include fescues, bent grass, and bluegrass. Cool-season grasses tend to flourish in the spring after breaking winter dormancy and in early fall, when temperatures moderate and droughts and heat waves are typically behind us.

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.

Cold-Tendar Annuals
Plants that are typically killed by freezing temperatures.

Cole Crops
Any plant belonging to the mustard (cabbage) family, including cabbage, Brussel sprouts, cauliflower, collards, kale, kohlrabi, mustard, and turnip Cole crops thrive in cool seasons

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.

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.

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.

Crotch
The area of a tree at which a main branch joins the trunk.

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.

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.

Cracking
When the skins of fruits, such as tomatoes, split or crack from a large fluctuation in water intake; often due to inconsistent watering or after rainy spells

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

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

Cutworm Collar
A barrier, such as a strip of aluminum foil, placed around the base of a seedling at the soil to prevent cutworms from reaching and injuring young stems.

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.

Cut-And-Come Again Harvest
a harvest method used with leafy crops where you cut off the entire plant, when plants reach 3 to 6 inches tall, leaving a half-inch stub; plants re-sprout to yield more harvests later; with most greens, you can anticipate three to four harvests with this method; good crops for this method include leaf lettuce, arugula, cilantro, parsley, and turnip and mustard greens.

Cubic Foot
Volume measurement in feet

Cucurbit
A plant belonging to the plant family Cucurbitaceae, or gourd family; includes squashes, watermelons, cantaloupe, and gourds.

Culinary
(As In Herbs) Referring to plant crops used in cooking.

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.

Day-Length
The measure of daylight hours within one day; day-length is longer in the summer and shorter in fall and winter in the North Hemisphere.

Day-Neutral
Refers to plants that mature or flower regardless of the length day; some plants, like onions, need either short days or long days to trigger maturity, but day-neutral plants don’t differentiate.

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.

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

Depurative
Herbs considered to have purifying and detoxifying effects.

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

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

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

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.

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

Deciduous
Plants that drop all their leaves at the end of a growing season.

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

Dead-heading
Dead-heading is cutting off the spent flower heads on plants after they have bloomed.

Direct Sow
Planting seeds directly onto the ground.

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

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

Dimorphic
Occurring in or representing two distinct forms.

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

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

Digging Fork
A digging tool with four tines used to lift and aerate soil, blend amendments into soil, or harvest potatoes, onions, or leeks. Sometimes called a spading or garden fork

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

Dorment
A plant in an inactive growth state.

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.

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.

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.

Early Variety
A plant that matures earlier than typical for its type and delivers an early harvest; early varieties are ideal for planting in late summer to yield a fall crop; early tomato varieties include ‘Better Bush’, ‘Bush Early Girl’, ‘Big Beef’, and ‘Early Girl’.

Ectothermic
Cold blooded.

Eclose
When an insect merges as an adult from the pupa or as a larva from the egg.

Ecosystem
A comunnity of animals, plants, and microorganisms.

Edging Plant
Refers to a plant that is low growing and can be used along the edges of planting beds or containers; because it has a short stature, an edging plant won’t hide mid-size and taller plants that are planted behind it such as strawberries, sweet marjoram, sedums,and thyme

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.

Everbearing
A description used for strawberries multiple times (seeming continuous) throughout summer.

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.

Feed
Deliver nutrient to the plant via roots or foliage.

Female
Pistillate, ovule, seed-producing.

Female Flower
A flower that has only female parts; many vegetables have flowers that contain both male and female parts within the same flower, but cucurbits such a s smash, cucumber, cantaloupe, and watermelon have separate male and female flowers, and pollen must be transferred from the male flower to female flowers by a pollinator.

Fertilizer
The three top nutrients needed in the soil NPK

Fertilizer Burn
Over fertilization

Fish Emulsion
A liquid fertilizer created from byproducts of fish oil and fish meal. Fish emulsion comes as a concentrate that you dilute with water and apply to foliage. Fish emulsion has a high nitrogen content, which makes it a good choice for leafy greens, like broccoli or Swiss chard, but all plants respond to it; it can have a fishy smell, but you can purchase types with less odor.

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

Floating Row Cover
A light- and water-transmitting polypropylene fabric that’s placed over plants (either directly or using a structure to shield them from cold, birds, and insects or diseases spread by insects. Row cover fabrics protect plants from cold and wind in early spring to allow for earlier planting, and they provide shade for plants and soil in hot regions. Row covers come in different thicknesses for use in different seasons; lightweight fabrics work well in summer heat; heavier fabrics can protect plants against varying levels of cold; also called row cover or garden fabric

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

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

Forb
An herbaceous flowering plant that is not a graminoid (grass, sedge, or rush.) The term is used in biology and in vegetation ecology, especially in relation to grasslands and understory

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.

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