A Garden for All
It may be true that a rose by any other name is still a rose but the blossoms at the Royal Botanical Garden’s rejuvenated rose garden are not the same …
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Papilionaceous: Butterfly-like, as the irregular corolla of a pea, with a banner petal, two wing petals, and two fused keel petals.* Baptisia is a member of the pea family (Fabaceae). …
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Deracinate:Â To pluck or tear up by the roots; to uproot, eradicate, exterminate.* Don’t just pull those weeds, deracinate them! *OED Online, Oxford University Press.
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Flexuose:Â Bending back and forth at angles in opposite directions, zigzagging.* The stems of Japanese knotweed, a highly invasive plant, have a characteristic zigzag shape. *Pell, S.K., Angell, B. (2016). A …
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Flush:Â Emergence of leaves or flowers on woody plants.* As the flowers begin to fade on the redbuds (Cercis canadensis), the trees put out their flush of leaves. *Pell, S.K., Angell, …
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My first assignment as editor of Plant & Garden magazine was to cover the Civic Garden Centre’s Through The Garden Gate garden tour. More than 20 years later it remains …
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Peltate:Â Having a centrally attached stalk or petiole like an umbrella.* The leaf stalk of mayapples (Podophyllum peltatum)Â is attached in the middle of the leaf, rather than at the leaf margin. …
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Achlamydeous:Â Having neither sepals nor petals.* Willows (Salix spp.) produce a type of flower called a catkin. They have no petals or sepals. *A technical glossary of horticultural and landscape terminology. …
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Runcinate:Â Pinnatifid with the lobes pointed and sloping toward the petiole; e.g., the leaves of dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)* Pinnatifid leaves have lobes that are divided halfway or more toward the central …
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Hypogeal germination:Â Seed germination in which the cotyledons remain below the soil surface.* The cotyledons (seed leaves) of peas stay below ground. The first thing to emerge from the soil are …
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