Glossary of terms

A reference section with categories and short explanations.

Found: 4

Quarter

Landscape terms

1) an element of garden-park composition, introduced already in the Middle Ages, with flower beds, gazebos, sculptures: 2) part of a forest-park area bounded by clearings.

Quebrada

Cactus grower terms

A short ravine or gorge, a narrow pass, often lacking streams or drainage.

Quilted

African violet terms

Type of leaf with deeply sunken veins and pronounced convexities between them.

Quincunx

Landscape terms

A method of planting trees in staggered rows in a checkerboard pattern, with crowns pruned into a single line and trunks left clear at the base. It forms a single volume and provides visibility along diagonal directions between the trunks;…