underplantingn.
The planting or cultivation of smaller plants in between taller ones; a plant so grown; spec. in Forestry, the process of growing shade-bearing trees among taller ones which they may eventually replace.
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1914 G. Jekyll Colour in Flower Garden (ed. 3) ix. 86 [Variegated mint] is one of the prettiest things as an underplanting to anything of white or yellow colour.
1928 R. S. Troup Silvicultural Syst. xv. 170 Underplanting of the thinned coppice and standards should be carried out with shade-bearers only.
1953 H. L. Edlin Forester's Handbk. vii. 108 As a rule the purpose of underplanting is to raise a successor crop, to supersede the present main one, which will gradually be eliminated.
1962 R. Page Educ. Gardener iii. 99 The Shablikine roses share a terrace with an underplanting of agapanthus.
1978 Country Life 10 Aug. 367/1 There is an extensive pinetum in which the trees are sufficiently widely spaced to allow generous underplanting.
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