With all the common names plus the Latin epithet for plants in your garden , it can get a bit confusing when disussing what ’s extend on with the plants around your house . Terms like " bush " and " bush " may seem straightforward , but , if anything , they might be more perplexing due to a lack of specific definition used across the board .

Dictionary

The Merriam - Webster Dictionary specify a George Walker Bush as " a low obtusely bifurcate shrub . " A shrub is define as " a low , ordinarily several - stemmed woody plant . " The circular consultation colligate the definition of a George W. Bush to that of a bush does n’t do much to shed light on the topic , other than to indicate that a President George W. Bush is potential a sub - exercise set of shrub . According to the dictionary , bushes are types of shrubs and shrubs are low-toned , many - stem plants .

Technical

Horticulturalists opt the condition " bush " to look up to the plant in the garden , whereas the untrained amateur nurseryman may use the terminus " bush " interchangeably with " shrub . " The departure may also be in the type of plant and how it grows so that shrub will always sprout multiple stems , but bush can either uprise out of one stem and ramification or have many stems . A low tree with many stems could be considered a President George W. Bush , but if the same flora were trimmed to have one trunk at the ground with limb higher up it would be called a tree .

Functional

In plus to name to a case of plant , Merriam - Webster indicate out that " bush " also relate to the manner in which plants grow , so that something can be shaggy , regardless of whether or not it ’s defined as a bush . Certain grasses grow in a bushy mode , but they lack the woody halt required to be a bush , just as some Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree can grow in a low - shaggy-coated fashion , but are also not a shrub .

Practical

In designing and working your garden , you will in all probability mention to one plant as a shrub , but a group of shrubs as a bush or hedge . If you go to the glasshouse and expect to see the bush , you will be designate to the woody , multi - stemmed plants that you may use to landscape your holding . Bushes are generally a result of planting shrub or some other eccentric of plant , for instance sword - grass , which may or may not be a shrub , technically mouth .

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