Glossary of Gardening Terms

Sometimes gardening terminology can seem like a foreign language. The following list of terms should help clear some confusion in your garden reading. Check back as new terms are added.

A

Acidic Soil
Alkaline Soil
Amendments
Annual Flower or Plant

B

Bare Root
Basal Leaf
Biennal Flower or Plant
Bulb

C

Compost
Corm
Crown
Cultivars

D

Deadheading Garden Flowers
Deciduous Trees and Shrubs
Determinate Tomato Varieties
Drupes

E

F

G

H

Herbaceous Perennial
Hybrid Garden Plants

I

Indeterminate Tomato Varieties

J

K

L

Layering, Propagating Plants by Layering

M

N

O

Open Pollinated Garden Plants

P

Palmate leaves
Perennial Garden Plant
pH

Q

R

Rhizome
Root Pruning

S

Softwood Cuttings
Standards, Training Plants into Standards

T

Tuber

U

V

W

X

Y

Z