vysokokmeny

English translation: tree form plants

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Czech term or phrase:vysokokmeny
English translation:tree form plants
Entered by: Maria Chmelarova

07:36 May 4, 2006
Czech to English translations [PRO]
Science - Botany / gardening
Czech term or phrase: vysokokmeny
These are some kind of plants that belonged in "traditional" gardens, along with rows of current bushes, cabbages, and a hen house. I don't know if they are flowers or (perhaps) fruit trees? The vysokokmeny, along with the vegetable patch and chickens have all been removed from this person's garden, and she has put in grass, a fake pond, and a small rock garden.
Melinda Reidinger
Czech Republic
Local time: 22:42
tree form plants
Explanation:
vysokokmenne - high trunk plants-trees, small trees with half trunks - trees, bushes and etc.
In your text "vysokokmenne " plants in traditional gardens along with current bushes , are plans professionally trimmed, trained and shaped as tree.
Uz spomenuta vysokokmenna ruza, fuchsia , wisteria a pod. as tree form rose, wisteria bungei a pod.
v ceskom texte je spomenuta vysokokmenna fuchsia
http://www2.webpark.cz/lesniskolka/balkony/fuchsie.html
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Maria Chmelarova
Local time: 17:42
Grading comment
This answer best tells me what kind of plants are being described. Now that I know, I will, however, add the term "standard" in addition to "tree form," because when they are sold in this shape, roses, wisteria, etc. are usually just called "standards." Non-gardeners, however, may not know this.

Thank you.
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Summary of answers provided
5high-trunk trees
Sarka Rubkova
4tree
Pavel Blann
3 +1shrubs
David Knowles
4tree form plants
Maria Chmelarova
4screening/tall trunk trees
lingua chick


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tree


Explanation:
e.g. vysokokmenná růže = rose tree

Pavel Blann
Czech Republic
Local time: 22:42
Native speaker of: Czech
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
high-trunk trees


Explanation:
Vysokokmeny may be both plants and trees. As my colleague has already mention there is e.g. a rose tree (vysokokmenná růže) or it may be any fruit tree with high trunk

Sarka Rubkova
Czech Republic
Local time: 22:42
Native speaker of: Native in CzechCzech
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shrubs


Explanation:
If you've already got "bushes", "shrubs" go very well with them! They can be of any height, but exclude things traditionally called trees, such as "oak trees". Roses are bushes in English, not trees.

David Knowles
Local time: 21:42
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

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tree form plants


Explanation:
vysokokmenne - high trunk plants-trees, small trees with half trunks - trees, bushes and etc.
In your text "vysokokmenne " plants in traditional gardens along with current bushes , are plans professionally trimmed, trained and shaped as tree.
Uz spomenuta vysokokmenna ruza, fuchsia , wisteria a pod. as tree form rose, wisteria bungei a pod.
v ceskom texte je spomenuta vysokokmenna fuchsia
http://www2.webpark.cz/lesniskolka/balkony/fuchsie.html


    Reference: http://www2webpark.cz/lesniskolka/balkony/fuchsie.html
Maria Chmelarova
Local time: 17:42
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Slovak
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
This answer best tells me what kind of plants are being described. Now that I know, I will, however, add the term "standard" in addition to "tree form," because when they are sold in this shape, roses, wisteria, etc. are usually just called "standards." Non-gardeners, however, may not know this.

Thank you.
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10 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
screening/tall trunk trees


Explanation:
Screening trees or tall trunk trees are used predominantly for privacy, wind and sound screening. These can be either evergreen or deciduous, e.g. pines, cypresses, laurels, holm-oaks, poplars and birches.

lingua chick
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:42
Native speaker of: English
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