Garden Use – Review Guide

Writing Guide:

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What’s This Content for?

In this section, we will tell the readers why and how the garden plants are used. A list of garden plants will be given, and you are selected to explain briefly that why they are considered to be ornamental and how people often use them in their gardens.

We hope these creative contents are simple, focused, and specific. Highlighting characteristic traits of these plants.

Basic Requirements

1. Word Count: around 50 words (for Japanese and Korean, around 100 characters; for Chinese around 80 characters).

If the plant is very popular or versatile, it is OK to go slightly longer for this section. While if it is rarely used, a bit shorter is acceptable (but still the content should be more than 30 words).

Reject the entries that did not match the lower limit.

2. Focus on the Field: please focus on gardening and landscaping. Do not mention any related or unrelated information, e.g.: original distribution, environments favored, hardiness zone, care tips, etc. These pieces of information will be talked about in other sections.

Reject the entries that’s irrelevant to the field.

  • General information, like original distribution, environments favored, hardiness zone, care tips, etc. are NOT suggested to be discussed in this section.
  • Houseplant use is often considered as a branch of garden use, but in our system, the utility in gardens and houses are operated separately. There’s another parallel section that will discuss the plant’s usage as a houseplant. It is OK to mention it could be planted indoors, but further discussion is NOT allowed.
  • If you can not find any literal “garden use” of the plant, please leave the box blank and tell us in the comments. Then we will revise our name list timely. In this case, remember to check the “No reliable source found” option.

3. Information Covered: contents are supposed to cover two related aspects: (1) why they are used in gardens and (2) the most popular ways that they are used in gardens.

3.1. Why– the advantages of the plants:
  • The showy appearance 
  • The interesting seasons
  • The adaptability to the garden
3.2. How– their common use in gardens:
  • The role they often played in garden landscaping (as specimen trees, as edgings, as ground covers, etc.)
  • Often used in which style of gardens (rock gardens, Japanese gardens, cottage gardens, etc.).
  • Common ways they are planted (under large trees, beside brick walkways, potted, etc.)
  • Other utilities (deer resist, wind-breaking, etc.)

Reject the entries missing either 3.1. or 3.2.

4. Check the Sensitive Expressions
4.1 Non-toxic
  • Reject the contents with no supporting link attached.
  • Reject the contents that their supporting link is not reliable.
  • Reject the contents if only you can find any information on the internet that claims that it is toxic.
  • Reject the contents with no supporting link attached.
  • Reject the contents that their supporting link is not reliable.
  • Reject the contents if only you can find any information on the internet that claims that it is toxic.
4.2 Edible
  • Any expression related to eating should be considered as a piece of “Edible information”. Including but not limited to declare one plant can be a source of food, can make a salad, can make tea, work as an ingredient of wine/spirit/beer/cocktail, grown as a crop or a spice, its taste (is sweet, bitter, salty) without declaring it’s toxic. Of course, simply declaring some plant is edible is a piece of “edible information” too.
  • Reject the contents with no sales link from a large local or international commerce website. Unless it is a daily vegetable/fruit.
  • Reject the contents that their supporting link pointed to medical or other usages instead of eating.
4.3 Medical
  • Reject any expressions on indications and efficacy as a medicine.
  • Reject any medicinal description unless it is historical or has cultural significance. (Note: indications and efficacy are still not allowed in cultural and historical use.)
5. Check the Political or Legal Issues

5.1 Plagiarism: Reject

5.2 Politics, pornography, religion or racial discrimination, drugs, etc.: Reject

5.3 Marijuana, tobacco, etc. any positive description of their usage as an addict: Reject. E.g., Nicotiana tabacum is: a source of cigarettes (nurture, OK), a source of premium Cuban cigars (“premium” has a positive meaning, reject), a great experimental material in molecular biology (positive, but not as an addict, OK).

5.4 Alcohol: writers could state that tequila is made from blue agave, but are Not Allowed to introduce how “good” tequila is.

6. Check the Usage of System Placeholders

If the writer failed to use the placeholders systematically, Reject the workspace.

Special Attentions
  • Local information in your country is highly recommended
  • Use common names instead of Latin names whenever possible
  • Italicize any Latin words (other than placeholders) that appear (e.g., genus names, etc.)
  • If you believe that the common name of the writing target is wrong (including singular or plural form), please Report it in the link below and we will change it in time.
Examples

Carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus) [71 words]

_COMMON_NAME_ produces fragrant blooms with fluffy double petals. The flowering season lasts nearly the whole summer. Depending on the breeds, _COMMON_NAME_ comes from an array of different colors and different heights and branching habits. You can always find a proper breed to fit your need in the garden, from a specimen flower in your rock garden to an edging flower. It adapts well for potting and wildly used as a cut flower.

Palm Sedge (Carex phyllocephala) [50 words]

_COMMON_NAME_ is a deer resist plant prized for its evergreen foliage. Its leaves clustered in small whorls at the top part of its upright stems, resembling miniature palms. It is a perfect specimen plant or ground cover under the woodland garden and works well as a border in shade too.