Gardening

Gardening

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Bicolour

Garden; Gardening

A flower with petals which bear two distinctly different colors.

Herber is the mediaeval word for a planted garden (from the Latin herba=grass, or a herbaceous plant). The herber could be used for medicinal plants or flowers. Later the word came to be used for an ...

Scarify

Garden; Gardening

To scratch or break the hard coat of some seeds, so they will germinate easily. Fine sandpaper or just soaking the seed will do the trick.

Hermitage

Garden; Gardening

A Hermitage is a garden building which looks suited to use by a hermit, usually with a rustic appearance. Houses (eg the Ermitage outside Bayreuth) were designed like monasteries.

Scooping (de-eyeing)

Garden; Gardening

A technique that is used to produce a shorter and bushier plant by scraping out the centre eye of the bulb.

Biennial

Garden; Gardening

A plant that will require two growing seasons to complete its life cycle. In the first year leaves. In the second year has blooms and seeds (i.e. foxglove, hollyhock, rose campion.)

Herbicide

Garden; Gardening

As much as I hate the use of this word and anything connected to it, it is any chemical that will kill a plant. There are both selective and non-selective herbicides. Selectives only killing a ...