Gardening Terms

A Glossary of Gardening Terms

+	Mulch
X (Cross)	Naturalise
Acid	Nectar
Adventitious	Neutral
Aerial Root	Node
Air-Layering	Offset
Alkaline	Opposite
Alpine House	Ovary
Alternate	Palm
Annuals	Palmate

Anther	Pan
Apex	Panicle
Areole	Papilla
Asclepiad	Pea-like
Auricle	Peat Bed
Awn	Pedicel
Axil	Peduncle
Bedding Plants	Peltate
Biennials	Perennial
Blade	Perianth

Bloom	Perianth Segment
Bog Garden	Petal
Bole	Petaloid
Bolt	Petiole
Bonsai	pH
Bract	Phyllode
Bud	Pinch Out
Bulbs	Pinna
Bulbil	Pinnate
Bulblet	Pistil

Bur	Pollard
Cactus	Pollination
Calyx	Procumbent
Capsule	Raceme
Carpel	Ray Floret / Ray Flower
Catkin	Ray Petal
Caudex	Recurved
Cladode	Reflexed
Claw	Revert
Climbers	Rhizomes

Clone	Root
Compost	Rootball
Compound	Rootstock
Cone	Rosette
Coppice	Runner
Cordon	Scale
Corms	Scandent
Cormlet	Scarify
Corolla	Scion
Corona	Scree

Corymb	Seed Head
Cotyledon	Seed Leaf
Creeper	Self-Seed
Crisped	Sepal
Cross	Series
Crown	Sessile
Culm	Sheath
Cutting	Shoot
Cyme	Shrub
Dead-head	Shy-Flowering

Deciduous	Simple
Decumbent	Soft-Stemmed
Dentate	Soil
Die-back	Spadix
Dioecious	Spathe
Disbud	Sphagnum
Disc-Floret / Disc-Flower	Spike
Division	Spikelet
Elliptic	Spore
Entire	Sporangium

Epiphyte	Sport
Evergreen	Spur
F1 Hybrid	Spur back
Fall	Stamen
Fan Palm	Standard
Farina	Stapeliad
Fastigiate	Stem Segment
Ferns	Sterile
Fibrous Rooted	Stigma
Filament	Stipule

Flocculate	Stock
Floret	Stolon
Flower	Stop
Flower head	Stratify
Force	Style
Frond	Sub-Globose
Fruit	Sub-Shrub
Glabrous	Succulent
Glaucous	Sucker
Globose	Summer-Deciduous

Glochid	Taproot
Graft	Tendril
Heel	Tooth
Herbaceous	Tepal
Herbaceous Perennials	Tree
Hose-in-hose	Trifoliate
Humus	Trifoliolate
Hybrid	True
Incurved	Truss
Inflorescence	Tuber

Insectivorous	Tubercle
Key	Turion
Lateral	Umbel
Layering	Upright
	Water Bud
Lenticel	Weeds
Lime	Whorl
Linear	Winged
Lip	Woody Stemmed
Loam	Worms

Marginal Water-Plants
Midrib
Monocarpic