Nursery

2. The vascular tissue of plants that conducts sugars and metabolic products downward from the leaves
3. The backyard area of a residence is sometimes referred to as the ____ area
8. a pesticide signal word and is used on pesticides that are less toxic than others
10. A nursery business owner realized that her equipment is not worth as much this year as it was last year, or any year since she purchased the equipment. The measure of how much a piece of equipment drops in value each year
11. A designer paired a red/purple barberry with a yellow sunshine ligustrum near the front door. These evergreen shrubs grow to similar size. Which of these was the designer probably trying to achieve?
14. A pesticide that warns against dermal contact indicates that precautions against contact with __ should be taken
15. this tree provides the best fall color

1. For a tree to shade the home from the afternoon sun in summer, plant the tree on the __ side of the house
4. a herbaceous perennial
5. The first root of a germinating seed forms from this part of the seed
6. generally the fastest method of establishing a lawn, but also is usually the most expensive
7. This fertilizer nutrient is readily lost from the soil through leaching, soil erosion, and runoff. Levels of this nutrient can fluctuate widely with weather and soil conditions over short time periods. It is applied to crops according to general recommendations rather than soil test result
9. advantages of a zero-turn mower over conventional riding mowers
12. In the landscape plant botanical name, Acer saccharum cv., the ‘cv.’ stands for
13. A soil that contains roughly equal amounts of sand, silt, and clay