Gardening

Gardening

Industry: Garden

Contributors in Gardening

Gardening

A crop (such as rye grass) that is grown and then incorporated into the soil to increase soil fertility or organic matter content. Usually turned over into the soil a few weeks before new planting ...

Bonsai

Garden; Gardening

Bonsai is a Japanese word (derived from the Chinese word penjing) meaning a tray garden. It is the art of miniaturising trees by careful root and stem pruning and root restriction.

Humus

Garden; Gardening

This is the organic residue of decayed vegetable in the soil (i.e. leaf mould or compost.)

Shin-gyo-so

Garden; Gardening

Shin, gyo and so are terms (derived from calligraphy) and used to describe, respectively, a formal, semiformal and informal style of Japanese garden design

Climbers

Garden; Gardening

Those gardeners who are willing to hike for distances to see an alpine specimen.

Tap root

Garden; Gardening

The main root, sometimes swollen, which grows vertically into the soil. It is hard to transplant perennials with tap roots.

Botanic garden

Garden; Gardening

The idea of making a collection of plants is found in Egyptian and Mesopotamian gardens. In classical Greece and Rome, such plants were used for medicinal purposes. This practise was continued in the ...