Glossary of Terms
GARDENING WORDS YOU SHOULD KNOW
Gardeners have a vocabulary all their own. Would anyone else besides a gardener understand what "dress with dried blood to accelerate" means? It's not a line from a teenage horror flick - just a suggestion of how to make a peony grow faster, taken from an old gardening book.
As an aid to better gardening communication, here is a list of gardening words you might hear - plus a sentence in which you can use it. (Thanks to Pike Nursery for allowing the use of this list.)
- Rhizome
- A fleshy root extending from a plant, allowing it to spread and make new plants
"We must have dug up a ton of rhizomes around that bamboo clump before we could install an underground plastic barrier to keep it under control."
- Rhizome
- a fleshy belowground plant part that grows from the main plant into adjoining areas
"Mrs. Nelms dug up her irises last fall and gave me some of the rhizomes to plant in my yard."
- root ball
- the root system of a plant before it is planted
"I used my fingers and a stick to untangle the root ball before I planted that holly."
- root zone
- the entire area in which a plant's roots grow
"We used two bales of pine straw to mulch the whole root zone of the dogwood I planted last year."
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