Review for Ch 12 Landscape Design & Ch 8 Ornamentals

Ornamental plants include flowers, groundcovers, shrubs, trees and what else?

• Cactus

• Vines

• Fungi

• Vegetables

What type of trees lose their leaves for some part of the year?

• Deciduous

• Evergreen

Most warm weather seeds will not germinate well in soil below _____ degrees.

• 60

• 55

• 70

• 75

True or False: It's called dead-heading when you remove spent, dried-up flower and seedpods from a plant.

• True

• False

Plants designated as _________ by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and Texas AgriLife Research have been test and identified as “Texas-tough”.

• Native and Adaptive

• Texas Superstars

• Aggie Superstars

If something requires "full sun" how many hours of sun does it need?

• 6

• 8

• 4

• 10

_____________ is the plant’s ability to withstand low winter temperatures which you know by assigned hardiness zone rating.

• Half hardy

• Temp hardiness

• Full hardy

• Cold hardiness

What are the 3 classes that trees and shrubs fall into according to the way they are shipped?

• Bare-root

• Balled and burlapped

• In Ground grown

• Container grown

The planting hole needs to be ______as wide in diameter as but no deeper than the soil ball.

• twice

• three times

• the same size

What’s the soil pH range suitable for most landscape plants?

• 6-8

• 5.5 -7.5

• 5-7

• 4-8