Glossary of Terms
GARDENING WORDS YOU SHOULD KNOW
Gardeners have a vocabulary all their own. Would anyone else besides a gardener understand what "dress with dried blood to accelerate" means? It's not a line from a teenage horror flick - just a suggestion of how to make a peony grow faster, taken from an old gardening book.
As an aid to better gardening communication, here is a list of gardening words you might hear - plus a sentence in which you can use it. (Thanks to Pike Nursery for allowing the use of this list.)
- aerate
- to poke holes in a lawn so oxygen and water can better penetrate
"If it rains on Friday the ground will be soft enough for my rented aerator to make really deep holes on Saturday."
- aggressive
- fast growing, invasive; a plant to be avoided without forethought on how to control it
"They told me bamboo was aggressive but I didn'trealize it would send up sprouts 20 feet away from where I planted it!"
- annual
- a plant that survives only one growing season: a marigold is a summer annual, a pansy is a winter annual
"I know I have to buy them every year but annuals sure bloom vigorously while they're growing!"
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