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Anything related to the activity of attending to one's garden or the objects, animals,plants and shrubs found therein.

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pleach (or plash)

Garden; Gardening

Pleaching (or Plashing) is the practice of bending and inter-twining plants. Pleached trees grow together to form a hedge on stilts.

formal

Garden; Gardening

The term Formal is applied to gardens which emphasise straight lines, right angles and circles. It makes most sense in relation to Plato's Theory of Forms and as a contrast with ...

pleaching

Garden; Gardening

a popular technique of training and pruning shrubs and trees into a wall. Very popular in Europe.

foundation planting

Garden; Gardening

Any plant that is used around a building for the sole purpose of making it look more esthetic. In earlier days it was to cover the foundation.

pleasance (or pleasuance)

Garden; Gardening

A Pleasance (or Pleasuance) is a pleasure ground attached to a castle or mansion, usually outside the fortifications.

frond

Garden; Gardening

A leaf of a fern or palm. The limbs of a palm tree.

plinth

Garden; Gardening

A Plinth is the square base of a column or of a building.