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| What are 4 design choices that can lead to less maintenance? |
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| Simplicity, reduced size, mass planting, and planting trees/shrubs |
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| What 2 things make plant low maintenance? |
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| Moderate growth rate and few pest problems |
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| What 3 maintenance practices can lead to low maintenance plants? |
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| Catching problems early, fertilize in moderation, and prune at appropriate times |
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| What 5 things could be done to improve the Garden of Hopes and Dreams? |
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| Take out roses, mulch around raised beds to reduce string trimming, remove tires, add irrigation, and using clover instead of turf |
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| What potentially invasive tree outcompetes Sugar Maples? |
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| How are exotic honeysuckles different from native ones? |
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| They're more dense and greener |
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| How are Oriental and American Bittersweet different? |
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| Oriental is denser and larger |
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| What invasive has glossy leaves, subopposite leaves, dogwood-like, but turn yellow? |
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| How are Multiflora and Wild Roses different? |
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| Multiflora form dense thickets |
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| T/F Most introduced species become invasive? |
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| What winter interest category are dogwood, viburnum, and holly in? |
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| What winter interest category are red twig dogwood and willows in? |
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| What winter interest category are ninebark, birch, 7 sons flower, paperbark maple, aspen, and sycamore in? |
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| What winter interest category are witch hazel and 7 sons flower in? |
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| What winter interest category are redbud, hellebores, bulbs, and vernal witch hazel in? |
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| What 2 plant types can add winter interest? |
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| What chemically suppresses growth and survival of other species? |
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| Native or Invasive: Which plants tend to have most of their biomass above the ground? |
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| What are 3 negatives to birds eating invasive species? |
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| Reduced nutrition, increased predation, and altered feather coloration |
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| Why is the fall the best time to kill invasives? |
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| They're easy to spot and are conserving energy for winter, which makes herbicides work better |
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| What are native plants that are critical to the food web and are necessary for many wildlife species to complete their life cycle? |
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| What are the 2 types of keystone plants? |
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| Host plants that feed young caterpillars of about 90% of butterflies and moths (lepidoptera) and plants that feed specialized bees |
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| What are the top genus for keystone species? |
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| What is formal balance that depends on mirror images? |
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| What is an even use of elements throughout a yard? |
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| What are 2 common landscaping techniques? |
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| Framing the house and defining borders |
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| What is a benefit of sod over seed? |
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| Can install any time in the growing season |
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| What are 2 benefits of seed over sod? |
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| When is the best time to seed a lawn? |
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| What season would you need to seed more heavily? |
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| What type of cool season grass is deep green, repairs well because of rhizomes? |
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| What type of cool season grass can take up to 3 weeks to germinate and is high maintenance and needs a lot of fertilizer? |
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| What type of cool season grass is best for shade is low maintenance, but can't tolerate foot traffic? |
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| What type of cool season grass has cultivars that looks similar to KBG, but more drought-tolerant, and can stand alone in lots of sun/shade conditions? |
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| What type of cool season grass has cultivars that looks similar to KBG, but more drought-tolerant, and can stand alone in lots of sun/shade conditions? |
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| What type of cool season grass looks like KBG and has a fine blade, no rhizomes, greens up fast, and can be mowed in about 2 weeks? |
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| What type of cool season grass is good for bare patches, stripes well because back of blade is silvery, but doesn't like heat and cold? |
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| What are the 3 reasons that topdressing should be done on sports turf? |
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| Even playing surface, reduce bulk density/maintain porosity, and dilute organic matter |
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| How do you top dress sports turf? |
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| What is the length of continuous darkness called? |
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| What is a plant that will only flower if there's an uninterrupted dark period longer than their critical darkness period? |
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| Short day plants/long night plants |
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| What is a plant that will only flower if the uninterrupted dark period is shorter than their critical darkness period? |
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| Long day plants/short night plants |
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| What plant hormone is located at the tip of plants and can be pinched off? |
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| What plant hormone causes stem elongation at the growing tip? |
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| What plant hormone can migrate from cell to cell? |
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| What plant hormone is responsible for plants bending towards light and their response to gravity? |
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| What plant hormone inhibits growth of side shoots and encourages root growth in cuttings? |
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| What plant hormone stimulates flowering and initiates germination? |
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| What plant hormone causes internodes to stretch in relation to light intensity? |
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| What plant hormone is produced in stem and root apical meristems? |
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| What plant hormone is responsible for tissue culture and cell division? |
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| What plant hormone is responsible for cell differentiation and plant organ formation? |
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| What plant hormone forms callus tissue? |
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| What plant hormone delays the aging process in plants? |
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| What plant hormone pushes out lateral growth and is produced in roots? |
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| What plant hormone is the growth inhibiting hormone? |
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| What plant hormone is responsible for seed dormancy? |
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| What plant hormone closes stomata during dry periods? |
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| What plant hormone is a colorless gas and encourages ripening? |
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| What plant hormone thickens stems and breaks down chlorophyll? |
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| What plant hormone keeps plants compact and inhibits gibberellins? |
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| What plant hormone is also known as B-Nine |
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