{"id":13939,"date":"2012-08-12T01:26:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T08:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13939"},"modified":"2012-08-12T01:08:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-12T08:08:36","slug":"plant-a-plant-gardening-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/novice-gardeners\/plant-a-plant-gardening-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant a Plant – Gardening Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Golden<\/a><\/p>\n

Plant <\/strong>– to put in the ground for the purposes of growth. You can also plant in a pot or container. To plant is an active verb and the basis of much of gardening.<\/p>\n

Plant <\/strong>– a living organism and member of the vegetable kingdom often used as a noun to include trees and shrubs as well as other growing flowers, weeds or herbs. <\/p>\n

Plantlet<\/strong> – mini plants or offspring from a main plant as a means of reproducing themselves. e.g. Strawberry runners and Houseleeks (Sempervivum alpinum)<\/p>\n

Planter<\/strong> – an ornamental container for plants most often used outdoors.<\/p>\n

Plant up – a border or area filled with plants – a container can be ‘planted up’ with a selection of plants.<\/p>\n

Plantain <\/strong>– a genus of plants that includes Bananas and a UK weed.<\/p>\n

Planting <\/strong>– the act of putting plants, bulbs and roots into a growing medium. A planting is also used as a group term for a collection of plants ie a flower clock can be a ‘planting’ of low growing Sedum and coloured leaved plants.<\/p>\n

Plant Kingdom<\/strong> – is a division of living things the other being the animal kingdom. Plant kingdom includes green plants, land plants such as worts and mosses and red algae.<\/p>\n

Gardening Plant Tips <\/h3>\n
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  • Bare rooted plants are normally planted out in spring and autumn when the soil is warm and there is sufficient moisture. <\/li>\n
  • Plants grown in containers can usually planted at any time.<\/li>\n
  • Water new plants once they are planted and keep watering until they become established and able to find moisture for themselves<\/li>\n
  • Plant your plants in a good hole about twice the size of it’s rootball. <\/li>\n
  • Firm the plant into the ground with a fist or heel so it can’t easily be pulled out or have the soil moved to uncover the roots.<\/li>\n
  • Before planting the ground should be prepared by breaking up the soil. Add humus and fertiliser to give your plants roots the best home.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Plant is used is a term with several meanings. Heavy plant crossing may not relate to gardening but many other plant terms do so check out these simple definitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novice-gardeners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}