Saturated Plot Forest

From the Latin saturatus, past participle of saturare, to fill. A technical color term in modern usage — saturation is one of the three axes of HSL (with hue and lightness). As a modifier, saturated implies that the hue is at or near its maximum chromatic intensity. Sits at the bold-and-bright top of the grid.

Old English plot, small-piece-of-ground. As a color modifier, plot implies a tilled-garden-bed quality, the visual register of English-cottage-garden-and-allotment hand-tilled-and-cultivated small market-garden vegetable-bed surfaces under English-cottage-garden-and-allotment summer-tilling light. Sits at the modifier-and-place end of the grid, parallel to yard and garden in usage.

The dense canopy of a temperate or tropical woodland — oak, beech, pine, eucalyptus, mahogany — wherever leaves close above to filter the light below. Forest green refers to the average reflectance of a healthy mid-summer canopy seen from below: a saturated, slightly muted green with the matte finish of layered chlorophyll. Deeper than fern, cooler than olive, with the ecological weight of a word that has named every wooded biome on Earth.