Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Czech term or phrase:
vysokokmeny
English translation:
tree form plants
Added to glossary by
Maria Chmelarova
May 4, 2006 07:36
18 yrs ago
Czech term
Czech Republic
vysokokmeny
Czech to English
Science
Botany
gardening
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.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 | tree form plants |
Maria Chmelarova
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| 5 | high-trunk trees |
Sarka Rubkova
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| 4 | tree |
Pavel Blann
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| 3 +1 | shrubs |
David Knowles
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| 4 | screening/tall trunk trees |
lingua chick
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Proposed translations
5 hrs
Maria Chmelarova
Specializes in field
Native in: Slovak
Works in: English to Slovak, English to Czech, Slovak to English, and 2 more.
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tree form plants
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
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
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
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."
4 mins
tree
e.g. vysokokmenná růže = rose tree
1 hr
Sarka Rubkova
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Native in Czech
Czech Republic
20 years with technical translations
Native in: Czech 
Works in: English to Czech, Slovak to Czech, Czech to English, and 1 more.
high-trunk trees
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
+1
1 hr
David Knowles
Native in English
Specialist in Civil Law & Contracts
Native in: English
Works in: Russian to English, English, Ukrainian to English
shrubs
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.
10 hrs
lingua chick
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Native in English
United Kingdom
PERFECTION AS STANDARD
Native in: English
Works in: Czech to English, English to Czech, Slovak to English
screening/tall trunk trees
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.
Discussion
The word may be used in different ways in different contexts.