garden plant
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- noun
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planta de jardín
- "In Florida, where it flowers continually, it has been grown as a garden plant."
- many garden plants
- good garden plants
- garden plants will grow
Now true, house plants do not need as much sun as garden plants do.
- Now true, house plants do not need as much sun as garden plants do.
Examples
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The hens also get all the spent garden plants, weeds, and the occasional table scraps and uneaten dog food.
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Various countries import nonindigenous aquatic species and propagate them vegetatively for sale as ornamental aquarium and water garden plants.
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Of the seven other plants introduced during this period, six are garden plants.
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Many of our garden plants thrived that year.
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Many common house and garden plants may be toxic to animals if swallowed.
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You can find good listings of the pests and diseases most likely to affect almost any garden plant, shrub, or tree.
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There are a few weeds and maybe even some garden plants that look similar to pot at a distance, but daisies are definitely not one of them.
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You can put grass clippings, leaves, eggshells, fruit and vegetable scraps, coffee grounds, tea leaves, newspaper, weeds, and garden plants.
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It keeps weeds down (I pull a few that come up close to the garden plants), holds moisture, and once it is tilled into the soil, adds tilth, texture, and good organic material.
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Many typical garden plants would struggle to grow here without regular watering.
Synonyms
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A living thing with green leaves that grows in soil or water
How Cultivated
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'garden' (a cultivated outdoor plot) modifying 'plant' (a photosynthetic organism): a plant that grows in or is used for a garden. This straightforward modifier-noun combination is cross-linguistically common and follows predictable English compounding patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Garden plant comes from the simple picture of a small plant put into the soil of a garden to grow, often for flowers or for food. So it means 'a plant commonly grown in a garden for decoration or food'.