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French Gardening Vocabulary

French Gardening Vocabulary

Gardening is one of the most exciting and fun activities people enjoy during the springtime. On this page you’ll find a complete list of French gardening vocabulary. This list includes general terms, kinds of plants, gardening tools and materials, as well as useful verbs and adjectives.

Image of a garden

General terms

  • l’allée path
  • l’arrosage watering
  • la fontaine fountain
  • la rocaille rock garden
  • la serre greenhouse
  • le drainage drainage
  • le jardin à la française formal garden
  • le jardin d’eau water garden
  • le jardin garden
  • le jardin paysan cottage garden
  • le jardin sur le toit roof garden
  • le parterre flowerbed
  • le patio patio garden
  • le pavé paving
  • le potager vegetable garden
  • le sable sand
  • le tas de compost compost heap

Plants & Things That Grow

  • l’arbre tree
  • l’arbuste à fleurs flowering shrub
  • l’herbe grass
  • la fougère fern
  • la haie hedge
  • la pelouse lawn
  • la plante alpine alpine
  • la plante aquatique water plant
  • la plante d’ombre shade plant
  • la plante en pot potted plant
  • la plante grasse succulent
  • la plante grimpante climber
  • la plante rampante creeper
  • la plante vivace perennial
  • la topiare topiary
  • le bambou bamboo
  • le bulbe bulk
  • le cactus cactus
  • le confière confier
  • le jonc rush
  • le palmier palm
  • les mauvaises herbes weeds
  • les plantes plants

Gardening Tools

  • l’arroseur sprinkler
  • l’arrosoir watering can
  • la bêche spade
  • la brouette wheelbarrow
  • la dondeuse trimmer
  • la fourche fork
  • la grande cisaille long-handled shears
  • la houe hoe
  • la tondeuse lawnmower
  • le balai à gazon lawn rake
  • le déplantoir trowel
  • le gravier gravel
  • le panier de jardinier trug
  • le pot à fleurs flower pot
  • le râteau rake
  • le sac à l’herbe grass bag
  • les gants de jardinage gardening gloves
  • les outils de jardin garden tools

Gardening materials

  • l’argile clay
  • l’herbicide weedkiller
  • la chaux chalk
  • la terre topsoil
  • la vase silt
  • le pesticide pesticide
  • le sol soil
  • le sous-sol subsoil
  • le terreau compost

Verbs

  • arroser to water
  • bêcher to trim
  • biologique organic
  • cueillir to pick
  • cultiver to cultivate
  • désherber to weed
  • dessiner to landscape
  • élaguer to prune
  • fertiliser to fertalize
  • l’engrais fertalizer
  • mettre en pot to prop up
  • pailler to mulch
  • ratisser to rake
  • récolter to harvest
  • retourner airate
  • semer to sow
  • soigner to tend
  • tailler to trim
  • tamiser to sieve
  • tondre to mow (the lawn)
  • transplanter to transplant

Adjectives

  • à feuilles caduques deciduous
  • à feuilles persistantes evergreen
  • annuel annual
  • bisannuel biennial
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