What's Your Gardening Status?

If you can define the terms below without resorting to Google, you’re an expert gardener, and ready for a consultation to add to your existing gardens.

 

If you have a rough idea of what the terms to the right mean, you’re at the experienced level. Pat can suggest one of Petite Gardenscapes’ full color plans, with common and botanical plant names, and nearby nurseries that carry those plants.

 

If you love the look of a garden, but the terms look like Greek to you ,beginner is probably the best term.  Pat will start you off with a beginning plan, complete with instructions and help.

 

A FEW DEFINITIONS

Annual - plants that complete their life cycle (from seed to producing seed( in a single season. Up north, they can also be non-hardy perennials.

Perennials - plants that come back year after year, as long as they are zone hardy.

Zone Hardiness - a range of typical temperatures for a particular region.(Plants that are not zone hardy for your region will most likely not survive for the following season )

Bulb - for gardeners, a bulb is a plant that grows from a variety of underground structures. That includes true bulbs, corms, tubers, tuberous roots, and rhizomes.

Shrub - a low woody perennial, usually having a number of stems (as opposed to a trunk).

Deciduous Tree - a woody perennial plant that grows at least fourteen feet tall. Deciduous trees  lose their leaves in autumn.

Coniferous Tree - woody perennial plants, also at least fourteen feet tall, that bear cones. They are also called evergreens, but  to further confuse matters, larches, dawn redwoods, and bald cypress trees are conifers that lose their leaves in autumn.