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- 6. This cooling systems reduces watering due to higher humidity created by evaporation from the dripping water in the cool pad
- 9. This structure has the highest percentage of light transmission.
- 12. "Carpet Box" Herbaceous perennial evergreen typically used as a rhizomatous ground cover. It thrives in partial to full shade. his plant can spread aggressively and it is difficult to remove. I
- 14. Irrigation wherein tubes with emitters go to individual pots for water. A very efficient way to water
- 15. Expanded volcanic rock.
- 16. Having a misleading name, this plant is highly poisonous to humans. Its a wiry shrub with branches that scramble or climb if support is provided. It is one of the fastest-growing, least demanding houseplants
- 17. Powdery insects with four white wings
- 18. These panels are flexible, 3-6 mil thick, opaque, and relatively expensive
- 19. Roof slopes in one direction only. Generally faces south
- 20. This equipment is used for lights, shade cloth, irrigation, etc
- 23. At least 6 hours of sun each day
- 26. Produces sword-shaped, medium green leaves in upright fans and funnel-shaped flowers on slender scapes from summer into fall and has a wide variety of flower colors
- 27. Green soft bodied, winged or non-winged, sucking insect.
- 30. Seedlings fall over causing the stem to rot.
- 32. "Purple Passion Vine" Prefers bright, indirect light This plant has weak stems and a sprawling growth habit:
- 34. Removal of the top portion of a plant to make the plant more compact.
- 35. Lower leaves are brown, rotting and drying out
- 36. White cottony, sucking insect.
- 39. Thrive in moist wet environments, larva feed on plant roots and new callused tissue
- 40. This subtropical broadleaf evergreen succulent that is a popular houseplant. Means egg-shaped referring to the thick, fleshy leaves. Loves a sunny spot and well-drained loamy soil.
- 41. Quonset houses set on sidewalls
- 42. "Pepper face" Tropical evergreen perennial growing to 10" tall and broad with cupped leathery leaves and narrow spikes of white flowers up to 5" long, which grow in a shiny, winding manner
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- 1. This pulls hot air from the greenhouse
- 2. Removal of spent or dead flower
- 3. Plants that live more than two years
- 4. The flowers appear above a rosette of leaves on tall petioles and are usually in reds. It prefers rich, moist, well-drained soil.
- 5. compressed peat moss covered in a fine mesh that expands when soaked in water
- 7. This perennial is grown as an annual. Shape of the flower heads resembles a dragon snout
- 8. Curved roof bars covered with plastic or fiberglass panels
- 10. "Honey plant""Porcelain flower" It has long slender vines covered with waxy, deep green leathery leaves sometimes flecked with silver or creamy white. Loves humidity.
- 11. Irrigation system that waters greenhouses or shadehouses but may not give the deep watering some plants need.
- 13. This plant is an invasive species in NC. A rapidly growing, deciduous, drought-tolerant shrub native to Asia that thrives in full sun with drainage. "Summer Lilac"
- 21. Expanded mica, sterile.
- 22. This circulates air in the greenhouse even when the exhaust fan is not running
- 24. has leaf projections that are more scalloped or teardrop shaped. fleshy stems and showy leaves and grows well as a houseplant, preferring moisture
- 25. collects and stores heat from the sun (radiant heat)
- 28. Decomposing parts of sphagnum moss typically found deep in bogs
- 29. a low-growing, spreading, evergreen ground cover that may be classified as herbaceous perennial. Flowers are small, white, 4-petaled, and appear in dense clusters
- 31. This greenhouse covering panels consists of Twin wall and corrugated panels and is relatively expensive
- 33. Liking partial shade, its coarsely branched, flowering, deciduous shrub that grows up to 6.5 ft. tall. This plant blooms in mid- to late spring and is gigantic
- 37. Roof is equal in width and pitch on both sides. Most commonly used as a single greenhouse
- 38. "Iron Plant" Evergreen, rhizomatous perennial that loves deep shade and is drought tolerant