Glossary of terms

A reference section with categories and short explanations.

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Grotto

Landscape terms

An artificial park structure for resting in the shade, modeled after a natural grotto in rock or in formations of natural stones.

Groundcover plants

Landscape terms

These are predominantly low-growing wild perennials that spread by rooting shoots and are valued for their showy flowers and ornamental foliage. They are used for ornamental plantings, typically on sites with extreme growing conditions: on…

Group

Landscape terms

Woody or shrub plants planted close to one another that, according to the designer's intent, play a specific compositional role in forming the landscape of a garden or park; they are usually arranged along the edges of woodlands, on lawns …

Growing point

Cactus grower terms

The tip of the main organ (stem, root), composed of formative tissue represented by a group of meristematic cells.

Growth dynamics

Cactus grower terms

Differences in the rate of plant growth associated with natural factors (temperature, amount of light energy and precipitation), as well as with aspects of maintenance under enclosed growing conditions (frequency of watering, addition of f…

Gypsophila

Language of flowers - meanings

In the language of flowers: caution;

Habitus

Cactus grower terms

(From Latin habitus - appearance, outward aspect) the external appearance of an organism, the natural form of a plant.

Hakari: (hakari)

Bonsai terms

Removal of leaves (complete or partial defoliation) to trigger secondary vegetative growth after lignification of the current year's shoots.

Halophyte

Cactus grower terms

(From Greek hals - salt and phyton - plant) - a plant that grows on highly saline soils.

Hanging garden

Landscape terms

A small garden located on a roof, gallery, or special stone supports. It has a built-up soil layer for cultivating grasses, flowers, ornamental shrubs, and sometimes trees. Instead of a continuous soil layer, special portable containers fo…

Hedge (living fence)

Landscape terms

Plantings of trained or freely growing trees or shrubs (or their combination) intended to produce dense, impenetrable vegetation. They are usually trimmed to form a green wall. Depending on their purpose, hedges can be single-, double- or …

Heliophobes

Cactus grower terms

Plants that prefer minimal sunlight.

Heliophytes

Cactus grower terms

Plants that prefer maximum sunlight.

Herb

Language of flowers - meanings

In the language of flowers, submission, obedience;

Herbaceous plants

Special terms

Non-woody plants that die back to ground level at the end of the growing season.

Herbaceous stem

Special terms

A vegetative organ that is the axis of the shoot, bearing buds, leaves, flowers and fruit.

Heredity

Cactus grower terms

The property of organisms that ensures material and functional continuity from parents to offspring.

Herm

Landscape terms

A four-sided pillar topped with a sculpted head or bust.

Hermitage

Landscape terms

A structure characteristic of the period of development of garden-park and palace art of the 17th–18th centuries, representing an architectural building situated in the depths of a park, away from the palace or the main house of an estate,…

Heroon

Landscape terms

A memorial grove with statues and "memorial" trees.

Hilling

Garden terms

Covering the base of plants with soil.

Hilum

Cactus grower terms

(From Latin hilum - small thing) - the scar remaining on the seed after its separation from the funiculus.

Hilum

Cactus grower terms

The point of attachment of the seed in the fruit.

Hippodrome

Landscape terms

In Ancient Rome, a garden of a characteristic shape in the form of a rectangle rounded on one side.

Holotype

Cactus grower terms

A specimen of a plant that the author used as the nomenclatural type. If the author who described the taxon did not designate a holotype, or if the holotype was lost or destroyed, a lectotype or neotype may be designated as a replacement.

Honeysuckle

Language of flowers - meanings

In the language of flowers: magnanimity, generosity, sweet nature;

Hop

Language of flowers - meanings

In the language of flowers "Let's wait for favorable circumstances!";

Hormones

Cactus grower terms

(From Greek hormao - I set in motion, I stimulate) biologically active substances produced by clusters of specialized plant cells and exerting targeted action on other organs and tissues. Under the control of hormones, all stages of an org…