A reference section with categories and short explanations.
Landscape terms
Intricate passages; appeared in gardens of the Renaissance era and became widespread in Russian parks of the 18th–19th centuries. Labyrinths in parks are usually formed from tall clipped living hedges (using hornbeam, linden, laurel). Unti…
Landscape terms
A type of garden parterre with an intricate pattern made of <мертвых> materials, usually set against a sand background. Characteristic of the heyday of classical garden art in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
Language of flowers - meanings
In the language of flowers, capricious beauty, inconstancy;
Language of flowers - meanings
In the language of flowers, sadness;
Bonsai terms
Lanceolate
Landscape terms
1) a natural territorial complex, an area of the Earth's surface bounded by natural limits, within which natural components (relief, soil, vegetation, bodies of water, climate, animal life), as well as artificial, i.e. anthropogenic compon…
Landscape terms
The architecture of open spaces, a branch of urban planning whose goal is the formation of a favorable external environment for people’s daily life and recreation in cities, suburban and resort areas, and rural areas, taking into account f…
Landscape terms
A park (or part of a park) for walks and for contemplating scenes of <естественной> nature. It is distinguished by the free arrangement of roads, alleys and other layout elements, and usually includes extensive bodies of water, glades and …
Landscape terms
A technique in garden and park art, originating in the ancient gardens of China and Japan, developed in England, France, Russia and other countries in the 18th–19th centuries, characterized by the picturesqueness of groups of trees placed …
African violet terms
A type of flower whose size exceeds 4 cm (for example, in Pink Amiss).
African violet terms
A type of rosette in which its size reaches 40–60 cm.
Special terms
These are mature trees with a well-developed branching system, with branches evenly distributed, reaching a height of more than two meters in coniferous species and more than four meters in deciduous species.
Special terms
The position of any part of an organism to the side of the median plane.
Special terms
Secondary branch that grows from the side or from the base of the stem of a succulent plant.
Bonsai terms
Broad-leaved
Language of flowers - meanings
In the language of flowers, admiration, solitude;
Language of flowers - meanings
In the language of flowers: fulfillment of wishes, protection;
Landscape terms
A man-made turf sward composed of perennial grasses. Depending on their purpose, lawns are classified as sports, special-purpose, and ornamental (parterre, common, and meadow).
Special terms
This is a part of a stem or root bearing buds that is bent away from the parent plant and covered with soil to produce a new plant.
Special terms
The order of attachment of leaves on the stem.
Cactus grower terms
Soil composed of decayed leaves - leaf mold
Special terms
A plant that has water-storing tissues in its leaves, containing large amounts of water.
Cactus grower terms
A specimen selected as the nomenclatural type from the original material not by the author of the description but by subsequent researchers (in the absence or loss of the holotype)
Bonsai terms
Thin-scaled
Bonsai terms
Narrow-leaved
Bonsai terms
White-barked
Special terms
These are plants with long herbaceous or woody stems. They require a permanent support. Lianas differ in the way they attach to a support. For example, the stems of asparagus twine around a support; in others this function is performed by …
Cactus grower terms
1. The external appearance of plants reflecting their adaptability to environmental conditions. 2. A unit of ecological classification of plants with a similar adaptive structure.
Cactus grower terms
See lignification.
Cactus grower terms
The final phase of cellular life, when cell walls become rigid and strong and the cells ultimately die.
Language of flowers - meanings
In the language of flowers, beauty, being in love, the first stirrings of love;
Language of flowers - meanings
In the language of flowers "Do you still love me?";
Language of flowers - meanings
In the language of flowers, love and recognition;
Language of flowers - meanings
In the language of flowers "My heart belongs to you!";
Language of flowers - meanings
In the language of flowers: first love, "Let's love each other!";
Language of flowers - meanings
In the language of flowers: beauty;
Language of flowers - meanings
In the language of flowers hatred, disgust;
Language of flowers - meanings
In the language of flowers, maidenly charms;
Language of flowers - meanings
In the language of flowers: purity, virginity, majesty, "It's divine to be near you!!!";
Language of flowers - meanings
In the language of flowers, gratitude, brightness, but also frivolity, deceit;
