Horticulture

Roles: gardener, plant, soil, seed, season, harvest, pest, root

The deliberate cultivation of plants — planting, tending, pruning, and harvesting. Distinguished from wild growth by the presence of a gardener who shapes outcomes through patient intervention. A rich source domain for ideas about nurturing, organic growth with guidance, and the tension between control and natural process.

As Source Frame (18)

• Beauty Is a Flower → aesthetics
• Broadcast → communication
• Creation Is Cultivation → creative-process
• Creative Process Is Gardening → creative-process
• Cross-Pollination → organizational-behavior
• Filesystem Root → data-processing
• Filesystem Tree → filesystem
• Fruit of the Poisonous Tree → causal-reasoning
• Garden Growing Wild → software-abstraction
• Grafting → organizational-behavior
• Harm Is a Thorn → harm
• Ideas Are Plants → intellectual-inquiry
• Kernel → computing
• Nemawashi → organizational-behavior
• People Are Plants → life-course
• Prosperity Is Plant Growth → prosperity
• Pruning for Growth → organizational-behavior
• Shell → computing