The Gardener S Dictionary Of Horticultural Terms

As an inquisitive, well-informed home gardener, you may be confused by the terms you encounter in gardening books and magazines. This book by horticulturist Bob Gough defines in simple, everyday language nearly 1,500 terms of importance to gardeners. There are terms on just about every aspect of gardening--from names to measuring terms and abbreviations. You'll find entries for specific plant names and entries on common sources of trouble such as "yellows" and "rust" and animal pests such as "mites" and "thrips." Whether the gardening practice is old or new, European or American, scientific or traditional, it carries its own vocabulary. The Glossary of Vital Terms for the Home Gardener is a comprehensive glossary for the home horticulturist; it defines most of the terms home gardeners or beginning horticulturists are likely to encounter as they work. You can use it like a dictionary to look up unfamiliar terms and then quickly get back to your plants.

A Library Journal Best Reference Pick of 2015! Every gardener is a scientist. Pollination, native plants, ecology, climatology—these are just a few of the scientific concepts that play a key role in a successful garden. While the ideas are intuitive to many gardeners, they are often discussed in unfamiliar scientific terms. The Dictionary of Science for Gardeners is the first of its kind to provide practical scientific descriptions for gardening terms. Highlighting 16 branches of science that are of particular interest to gardeners, with entries from abaptation to zoochory, Michael Allaby explores more than 6,000 terms in one easy-to-use reference.

Gardeners puzzled by recommendations to "buy a swoe", or confused when trying to understand the difference between "linear" and "obovate" leaves will find answers here -- in understandable English and precise diagrams. Complete Gardener's Dictionary defines more than 2,500 botanical terms and garden-related terms, translating technical information into simple language. It gives readers listings and definitions of a wide array of common gardening terms and practices, garden tools and their specific uses, landscape methods, horticulture, soil analysis and care, fertilizing, controlling pests and diseases, and many other related topics. The book features unusually handsome and botanically accurate black-and-white line art -- approximately 500 illustrations in all.