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Compost

Garden; Gardening

Usual meaning for the house plant grower is a potting or seed/cutting mixture made from peat ("soil less compost") or sterilised soil ("loam compost") plus other materials such as sand, lime, and ...

Mirador

Garden; Gardening

A Mirador, from the Spanish mirar=to look, is room or tower, usually on the edge of a garden, from which there is a good view ( a mirador is similar to a Belvedere).

Not your normal street gangster, but close to it. Thugs are invasive plants. We enjoy their attractiveness but they will take over a garden. They are growing in the right conditions, but ironically ...

Burj

Garden; Gardening

A Burj is a fortified tower, as found in Indian gardens

Bud

Garden; Gardening

The embryonic shoot on a stem, branch, or tuber. It is the beginning of a bloom.

Insectivorous plant

Garden; Gardening

Another term for carnivorous plants. Plants that will trap and digest insects that will supply them with nitrogen. Most of these plants grow in swamps where it is difficult to obtain nitrogen.