Horticulture

Horticulture

Of or pertaining to the business, science, and technology of intensely cultivating plants for the use of humans.

Industry: Plants

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latifolia

Plants; Horticulture

Epithet meaning wider leaves than normal for a genus or species.

latiloba/latilobus/latilobum

Plants; Horticulture

Epithet meaning wider lobes or tissues sections in a leaf or flower.

lawn

Plants; Horticulture

Any expansive planting of grass, mowed to keep it short.

A method of propagation, by which a branch of a plant is rooted while still attached to the plant by securing it to the soil with a piece of wire or other means; propagation method to root attached ...

leaching

Plants; Horticulture

The removal or loss of excess salts or nutrients from soil. The soil around over fertilized plants can be leached clean by large quantities of fresh water. Areas of extremely high rainfall sometimes ...