Garden Glossary

Horticulture expert Dr. Lelia Kelly defines gardening terms

Amendment

Blight
Blossom End Rot
Bolt

Chill Hours
Chlorosis
Cold Frame
Crown
Cultivar

Desiccate

Feeder Roots
Frost Versus Hard Freeze

Genus and Species
Green Manure

Harden Off
Hardiness
Heirloom
High Tunnel
Hybrid

Indeterminate-Determinate

Legume
Light-Heavy Feeders

Micronutrients

Native Plant

Perennial-Annual-Biennial

Rhizome

Scarification
Surfactant
Sweet-Sour
Systemic

Translocation
Transpiration

Variegated

Wet Feet
Woody - Herbaceous