Plant Your Garden Flashcards
Name eight plant families.
- Trees
- Shrubs
- Perennials
- Climbers
- Grasses and Bamboos
- Bulbs
- Annuals and Biennials
- Water plants
Name the four categories of water plants.
- Oxygenators
- Aquatics
- Marginals
- Bog plants
Name five functions of plants in a garden design.
- Structural plants
- Mid-range plants
- Focal plants
- Ground cover
- Seasonal plants
Name four ways to group plants.
- Traditional schemes
- Contemporary blocks
- Woodland planting
- Naturalistic schemes
Name four types of containers for display.
- Rustic (recycled fruit boxes, old kitchen pans, wooden planters)
- Tropical (colourful glazed containers)
- Contemporary (metallic containers)
- Traditional (terracotta)
Name seven planting styles.
- Formal style
- Cottage style
- Urban style
- Mediterranean style
- Wildlife gardens
- Modernist styles
- Family gardens
Name four types of colour scheme (based on the colour wheel).
- Single-colour and duotone schemes
- Opposite colours
- Triadic colours
- Adjoining colours
Name six types of plant texture.
- Prickly
- Silky
- Shiny
- Matt
- Soft
- Hard
What are the five main functions of trees?
- Creating a woodland setting
- Adding height and privacy
- Using trees as focal points
- Framing features
- Providing colour and texture
What are the four different shapes of trees?
- Spreading (horizontal branches, often wider than they are tall)
- Weeping
- Fastigiate (erect branches close together)
- Round-headed (rounded canopy on a singular clear stem)
What are the five main functions of shrubs?
- Filling difficult sites
- Injecting foliage interest
- Creating container features
- Providing structure and screening
- Adding seasonal flowers
Name eight types of rose.
- Shrubs
- Hybrid tea
- Floribunda
- Old
- Patio and dwarf polyantha
- Miniature
- Ramblers
- Climbers
What are the five main functions of perennials?
- Filling the gaps
- Injecting tropical flavour
- Providing summer abundance
- Decorating dry landscapes
- Creating naturalistic effects
What is the Chelsea chop?
The Chelsea chop is cutting or pinching back plants by half in late spring. This helps to spread out the overall flowering season.
Name eight foliage options.
- Large leaves
- Colourful foliage
- Sword-like leaves
- Patterns
- Grassy leaves
- Finger-like foliage
- Ferny leaves
- Soft, downy foliage
What are the five main functions of climbers and wall shrubs?
- Providing walls of scent
- Creating leafy screens
- Decorating structures
- Adding height to container displays
- Climbing through trees and shrubs
What are the four methods with which climbers cling to their hosts?
- Aerial roots
- Hooks and thorns
- Adhesive pads
- Twining stems or tendrils
Name seven types of clematis.
- Early-flowered species
- Large-flowered hybrids
- Late-flowering hybrids
- Double-flowered hybrids
- Patio clematis
- Evergreen species
- Small-flowered species
What are the five main functions of bamboos and grasses?
- Injecting colour and form
- Providing textural container displays
- Creating screens and hedges
- Making meadows
- Adding interest to mixed displays
What are the five main functions of bulbs?
- Infusing gardens with scent
- Decorating lawns
- Making seasonal displays
- Creating tropical effects
- Welcoming in spring
What are the four forms of bulbs?
- True bulbs
- Corms
- Rhizomes
- Tubers
What is a true bulb?
A true bulb is made of leaves layered like an onion, covered with a protective papery skin or tunic.
What is a corm?
A corm is formed by the swollen base of a plant’s stem and are more rounded in shape than a true bulb.
What is a rhizome?
A rhizome has a swollen root that grows horizontally near the soil surface and produces several buds along it which then develop into leaves and flower stems.
What is a tuber?
A tuber is similar to a rhizome in that it has a swollen underground stem. They produce buds or eyes along their length, and each can form a new plant.
What are the ten types of dahlias?
- Single
- Anemone
- Ball
- Water lily
- Decorative
- Pompom
- Collerette
- Cactus
- Semi-cactus
- Miscellaneous
What are the five main functions of annuals and biennials?
- Creating fleeting combinations
- Making foils of foliage
- Going wild
- Planting classic containers
- Brightening the gloom
What are the seven types of sunflowers?
- Tall single stem
- Multi-stemmed varieties
- Double-flowered
- Dwarf varieties
- Bi-coloured
- Cream-flowered
- Dark-flowered
What are the five main functions of water gardening?
- Dressing up formal features
- Making a home for fish
- Planting beautiful bogs
- Introducing small schemes
- Creating a wildlife haven
Name the six types of water lilies.
- Vigorous types
- Small and dwarf
- Medium-sized
- Scented
- Colourful foliage
- Tender types
