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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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pumice

Garden; Gardening

Pumice is an igneous rock derived from lava. It is light and porous. Pumice was used as a building stone by the Romans and has been much-used in making grottos because it favour ...

alpine

Garden; Gardening

Plants from high mountain regions. Anything that is from above the tree line. They are able to overwinter beneath deep snow protected from extreme low temperature by their ...

girdling

Garden; Gardening

The choking of a branch by a wire, rope, or other inflexible material which usually occurs most often in woody stemmed plants that have been tied down too tightly without regard ...

alpine garden

Garden; Gardening

A garden used to grow Alpine plants ( though many of them do not come from the Alps). Rocks are often used in Alpine gardens and can help to keep the roots wet and the leaves dry.

glade

Garden; Gardening

An open space in a woodland area.

quincunx

Garden; Gardening

A Quincunx is planting pattern with five points (four to mark a square and one to mark the centre point).

alpine house

Garden; Gardening

A special greenhouse created to meet the requirements of alpines. It is usually kept cool in the summer by shading the glass. In the winter it is unheated unless it needs to ...