| A | B |
|---|
| growing medium | something you use to surround plants roots as they grow |
| thinning | where you pick out and discard any unwanted seedlings |
| pricking out | When seedlings emerge they are transplanted carefully to space them out |
| potting on | take a plant which has filled its current pot entirely and put it into the next size up |
| annual | grow flower and seed once per year e.g. tomatoes |
| biennial | grow flower and seed once every TWO years e.g. carrots |
| perennial | grow, flower and seed for many years e.g. oak |
| Deciduous | trees shed their leaves in winter e.g. oak |
| evergreen | trees keep their leaves all winter e.g. fir |
| asexual reproduction | taking a piece from a plant and growing it into an identical copy ( a clone) |
| bulbs | Swollen leaves as food stores e.g. onion |
| corms | Swollen stem as a food store e.g. corms |
| rhizomes | Underground stems e.g. couch grass |
| tubers | Swollen tips of underground shoots e.g. potatoes |
| runners | Tips of stem extensions e.g. strawberry |
| amenity horticulture | growing planst for parks and gardens |
| selective breeding | Picking the best characteristics and |
| yield | how much crop you can harvest |
| disease resistance | how well they can survive when attacked by disease |
| hardiness | how tough they are |
| appearance | what they look like |
| hybrid vigour | cross breeds doing particularly well, growing and surviving better than either parent. |
| bedding schemes | Planned planting in beds |
| Fuchsia | Purple flowers on a bush |
| Pelargonium (geranium), | Spikes of flowers, scented leaves |
| Begonia | Blousy flowers, succulent stems |
| marigold | orange blossoms, repel insects |
| Lobelia | cascades of small flowers, often blue. Used in hanging baskets |
| permanent planting | Planting to last many years |
| pruning | CUtting plants back to shape them or stimulate growth |
| rotary | Lawnmower with blades that go round in a horizontal plane |
| sidewheel/blade (cylinder | Lawnmower with blades that go round in a vertical plane |
| turf | Garss with soil still attached to the roots |
| ground cover | Planing to cover up the soil |
| glasshouses | Proper name for glass greenhouses |
| polytunnels | polythene tunnels |
| cloches | moveble small transparent protection for plants |
| fleece | Fabric to cover the soil |
| biological pest control | using predators to eat pests |
| non-biological pest control | Using chemicals to kill pests |
| soil based compost | e.g. John Innes |
| peat based compost | most commercial all-purpose composts |
| peat-free compost | Composts with no peat e.g. coir |
| hydroponics | Growing plants in a liquid medium |
