[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - shrubbery

[Paul Allen]

On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 at 00:00, Brian M. Sperlongano <zelonewolf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Not "grass" but "ornamental grasses", i.e. "a single large plant in the
> grass family".  Example:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennisetum_alopecuroides
> And not "trees" but "ornamental trees", i.e. "miniature trees planted for
> their aesthetic value"  Example:
> http://www.dammanns.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/cinderella.jpg
>

Despite the sizes, they are not technically shrubs.  I'd be happy enough to
gloss over that and call them natural=shrubs but not natural=shrubbery.
A shrubbery contains shrubs but not all groupings of shrubs
constitute a shrubbery.

>
> In the US, I would call all of these "landscaping".
>

For me, that brings up connotations of Capability Brown and massively
landscaped estates, with vast amounts of earth being moved in the
process.


>   Surely the British don't suffer from a complete lapse of terminology for
> describing these areas.
>

Perhaps we have a very comprehensive terminology, but I don't know it.  I
suspect architects and gardeners may have different terms for these things,
but I don't know what they are.

-- 
Paul
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