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Word of the Day: pod

October 10, 2011 By: Garden Dictionary Category: Garden Dictionary

A dry one-celled fruit with thicker walls than a capsule.

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Word of the Day: poacher’s spade

October 08, 2011 By: Garden Dictionary Category: Garden Dictionary, Tools of the Trade

A spade with a narrow blade, useful for digging out a plant from a crowded flower bed without disturbing neighboring plants.

Word of the Day: Poaceae

October 06, 2011 By: Garden Dictionary Category: Garden Dictionary

See Gramineae.

Word of the Day: plunge

October 03, 2011 By: Garden Dictionary Category: Garden Dictionary

  1. To bury a pot in which a houseplant is growing up to its rim in the garden, done in summer to refresh the plant. This is usually preferable to removing the plant from its pot, because the roots are still contained.
  2. To water a potted plant by soaking it in a container of water deep enough to totally immerse the pot. This is a useful way to revive plants if the potting soil has gotten very dry.
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Word of the Day: Sisyrinchium

October 01, 2011 By: Garden Dictionary Category: Garden Dictionary

The botanical name for blue-eyed grass.

Word of the Day: Primula

September 29, 2011 By: Garden Dictionary Category: Garden Dictionary

The botanical name for primrose.
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Word of the Day: six-pack

September 27, 2011 By: Garden Dictionary Category: Garden Dictionary

See cell pack.

Word of the Day: Pyrus

September 25, 2011 By: Garden Dictionary Category: Garden Dictionary

The botanical name for pear.

Word of the Day: skep

September 23, 2011 By: Garden Dictionary Category: Garden Dictionary

A straw or wicker beehive, these days most often used as an ornament in an herb garden.

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Word of the Day: pyriform

September 21, 2011 By: Garden Dictionary Category: Garden Dictionary

Pear shaped.

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Word of the Day: rotenone

September 19, 2011 By: Garden Dictionary Category: Garden Dictionary

A natural contact insecticide made from the roots of a tropical plant. It kills beneficial as well as destructive insects, is moderately toxic to humans and other warm-blooded animals, and is highly toxic to birds and fish.

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Word of the Day: sleep movements

September 17, 2011 By: Garden Dictionary Category: Garden Dictionary

The folding together of leaves, leaflets, or petals at night or on cloudy days. For example, crocuses, gazanias, moss rose, and many other flowers close at night and reopen the following day. Mimosa trees, clover, garden beans, and many other plants have leaves that fold up or down at night.

Word of the Day: Polygonum

September 15, 2011 By: Garden Dictionary Category: Garden Dictionary

The botanical name for knotweed and silver fleece vine.

Word of the Day: slip

September 13, 2011 By: Garden Dictionary Category: Garden Dictionary

A cutting taken for grafting or rooting.

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Word of the Day: Plumbago

September 11, 2011 By: Garden Dictionary Category: Garden Dictionary

The botanical name for leadwort.

Word of the Day: Spading Fork

September 09, 2011 By: Garden Dictionary Category: Garden Dictionary, Tools of the Trade

A broad-tined fork, useful for digging into sod, for harvesting potatoes or root crops, or for mixing amendments into the soil.
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Word of the Day: plum-

September 07, 2011 By: Garden Dictionary Category: Garden Dictionary

As part of a species name, means “feathery or fringed.” For example, carnation, Diantbus plumarius, has fringed petals.

Word of the Day: spade

September 05, 2011 By: Garden Dictionary Category: Garden Dictionary, Tools of the Trade

A sturdy digging tool with a thick handle and a heavy flat blade that can be pressed into the ground with the foot.
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Word of the Day: pleaching

September 03, 2011 By: Garden Dictionary Category: Garden Dictionary

A method of pruning and training trees or shrubs to produce a hedgelike wall

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Word of the Day: cross-pollination

August 19, 2011 By: Garden Dictionary Category: Garden Dictionary

The transfer of pollen from a flower on one plant to a flower on a different plant. Some species require cross-pollination in order to set seed.