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

Tropical
The tropics are warm places without freezes. Plants that thrive in hot humid climates.

Trellis
Frame or netting (lattice) that trains or supports plants.

Triecious
Of or pertaining to a species having male, female, and hermaphrodite flowers on different plants.

Treated Seed
In agriculture and horticulture, a chemical seed treatment, typically antimicrobial or fungidal, with which seeds are treated prior to planting.

Trailing
To hang down loosely from something. Plants that trail soften edges and spread down or out.

Transpire
Give off water vapor and by products via stomata and carbon dioxide intake at the leaves.

Transplant
The transfer of a young seeding into a large space. Young seedling plant especially grown in a container instead of starting directly from seed in the ground; the name “trans-plant” comes from the fact that it moves from its container into the ground; transplants give the garden a big head start; Bonnie Plants transplants are grown in greenhouses around the country and are ready for sale at the appropriate planting season

Tuberous Roots
Tuberous roots are the fifth and final type of bulb. Most often, tuberous roots are not thought of as bulbs at all (at least, not by me), but they are. Their parts below the ground are unmistakable. Unlike other bulb types, those tuberous roots have puffy root-like structures that look as though someone pumped them up like a balloon, but they are really adapted stems—not a true root. Instead, the actual root grows from the sides and the tip of the tuberous root. Familiar tuberous root plants include dahlias and daylilies.

Umbel
The flowering part of a plant made up of a cluster of flowers, as with lantana.

Undercut
Remove the final stump by cutting close to the trunk, but not flush with it. Make an angled cut away from the tree, just beyond the crease in the bark where the branch meets the trunk.

Understock
The rooted plant that receives the scion.

Upright
Vertical or erect.

Up-pot
To up-put mean to repot a plant when it’s outgrown its pot to a larger one. Increase the size of the pot and freshen the old potting soil with new soil. This gives the roots more room to grow.

Variety
Strain, phenotype.

Vascular System
The vessels and tissue that carry or circulate sap through the plant.

Variegated
Having or consisting of leaves that are edged or patterned in a second color, especially white as well as green.

Vertical
Up and down perpendicular to the horizontal.

Vernalization
Vernalization is the subjection of seeds or seedlings to cold temperatures in order to hasten plant development and flowering. The seeds and buds of many plants require cold in order to break dormancy.

Ventilation
Circulation of fresh air, fundamental to a healthy indoor garden, an exhaust fan creates excellent ventilation.

Vermiculture
Tthe cultivation of annelid worms (as earthworms or bloodworms) especially for use in composting.

Vegetative
Of, relating to, or denoting reproduction or propagation achieved by asexual means, either naturally (budding, rhizomes, runners, bulbs, etc.) or artificially (grafting, layering, or taking cuttings).

Vent
Opening such as a window or door that allows the circulation of fresh air.

Viticulture
The cultivation of grapes.

Vole
A vole is a vegetarian rodent. A vole will gnaw at the base of a tree or shrub. A vole may also damage flower bulbs and potatoes in the garden; but mainly, the vole will eat the stems and blades of lawn grass.

Water-wise
Water-wise.

Water Soluble
Able to be dissolved in water.

Water-in
To water-in means using a liquid vitamin, plant food, or some other additive with water so it can be readily absorbed by the soil.

Waterspouts
Watersprouts are the growth resulting from buds on the surface of old wood of a plant. The growth is very thin relative to the parent branch and the joint between the sprout and branch is weak. Like a sucker, the sprout wood is juvenile and fast-growing, fed on ample water and nutrients from the large parent wood.

Warm-season crops
Warm-season veggies require both warm soil and high temperatures (with a little cooling at night) to grow steadily and produce crops. They include traditional summer crops such as snap beans, corn, cucumbers, melons, peppers, tomatoes, and squash.

Warm-season grasses
Warm-season grasses are those grasses actively growing when its warm, and its green in the summer and the color of hay in the winter. Common warm-season grass include Zoysia, Centipede, and Bermuda. Warm-season grass tend to flourish during the warmer summer months, and therefore require fertilizing shortly after green-up in the spring and again in the late summer months.

Wetting Agent
Compourd that reduces the droplet size and lowers the surface tension of the water, making it wetter.

Weeping
Used in names of tree and shrub varieties with drooping branches. As example, a weeping cherry.

Well-Drained Soil
Soil that allows water to pass through it easily; a few minutes after watering or rainfall, soil that is well-drained will show no puddle of water remaining on the soil surface; all vegetables and herbs need soil that has good drainage

Weed
A wild plant growing where it is not wanted and in competition with cultivated plants.

Whirled
Sometimes more than two leaves arise from the same location (node) on a twig, the leaves may radiate from the twig like the spokes on wheel.

Winter Interest
Gardening for winter interest is to add color, exfoliating bark, berries, and flowers that are interesting during the winter months. Winter Protection

Wick
Part of a passive hydroponic system using a wick suspended in the nutrients solution, the nutrients pass up the wick and are absorbed by the medium and roots.

Wildcrafting
The gathering herbs, plants, fungi from the wild.

Wildlife Habitat
Wildlife Habitats.

Wilt
Wilting refers to the loss of rigidity of non-woody parts of plants. This occurs when the rate of loss of water from the plant is greater than the absorption of water in the plant.

Woody
Having stems and branches that are made of wood.

Wound
An injury to living tissue caused by a cut, blow, or other impact, typically one in which the skin is cut or broken

Xericscaping
Xericaping is a type of garden or using a particular plant that tolerates a low moisture growing environment. Water-wise refers to the same concept or type of plant.

Xylem
A compound tissue in vascular plants that helps provide support and that conducts water and nutrients upward from the roots, consisting of tracheids, vessels, parenchyma cells, and woody fibers

Yellowing
There are many reasons to cause yellow leaves on plants

Zone Denial
Risk takers…jk…Tony Avent…not kidding…

B & B or Balled and Burlapped
Digging a round root ball and held intact by a large piece of burlap. This is then held in place with wire or twine.

F1 hybrid
A F1 hybrid is when two pure lines are crossed, the plant resulting from their seeds is an F1 hybrid.

Hügelkultur
Hügelkultur (also spelled hüegelkultur) roughly translated from German as hill culture. Hügelkultur is the practice of composting large woody material to create a raised garden bed. It is a way of dealing with excess amounts of woody garden wastes, for example prunings, hedge clippings, brassica stems, or brushwood, and logs.

K
(Potassium) The abbreviation for potassium; the last of three letters (N-P-K) used on packaged fertilizers to denote the percentage (by weight) of potassium contained; potassium contributes to a plant’s overall health

N-P-K
This is expressed with three numbers (10-10-10 for example) on bags of fertilizer and refers to the nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium ratio in the mix. N, nitrogen; P, phosphorus; K, potassium.

N Nitrogen
The chemical element of atomic number 7, a colorless, odorless unreactive gas that forms about 78 percent of the earth’s atmosphere. Liquid nitrogen (made by distilling liquid air) boils at 77.4 kelvins (-195.8°C) and is used as a coolant.

P
(Phosphorous) A macronutrient that promotes root development, which strengthens plants, and increases blooms; often present in packaged fertilizers.