Last year I ran a series on explaining various different gardening terms. This series proved very popular and so it is making a return in 2011. To catch up on the words you may have missed in 2010, check out my two recap articles, Part 1 here and Part 2 here. Words for February – [...] Click to read more »
Understanding Garden Vocabulary – Part 11
Here we are, the penultimate entry for this series in the year 2010. I truly hope it has been a useful series for you and that you are now more knowledgeable in regards to gardening terms than when you starting reading my blog this year. The words for this month are propagation, transplanting, hardy and [...] Click to read more »
Understanding Gardening Vocabulary – Part 10
*Special* Understanding Plant Names! The end of the year is drawing closer by the day. How is it that October is here already? Just yesterday it seems I was sitting in my office making plans for this series and now, here we are, another year almost gone. I’d appreciate some feedback on how helpful this [...] Click to read more »
Understanding Gardening Vocabulary – Part 9
Spring is upon us and hopefully your garden is resurrecting itself after another winter. Maybe you have just found aussiegreenthumb.com as you have decided it is time to get out into your garden and make good use of the spring weather we will hopefully be getting! Part of the aussiegreenthumb.com philosophy is to ensure you [...] Click to read more »
Understanding Gardening Vocabulary – Part 6
No beating around the bush this month (no pun intended!), let’s get straight into it. The four words this month are Bonsai, Dwarf, Hybrid & Topiary. For a recap on previous words see links at the bottom of this article. Bonsai – The art of bonsai is a very fun one, but one that requires [...] Click to read more »
What’s that mean? Understanding Gardening Vocabulary – Part 5
Hopefully by now you are starting to understand some of the gardening terms that you may have been wondering about before, or at the very least perhaps discovered that some words can be used, interchangeably, at various times. In fact perhaps by now you are wowing your neighbours with your new found understanding of gardening [...] Click to read more »
What’s that mean? Understanding Gardening Vocabulary – Part 3
Understanding gardening vocabulary can be quite a tricky proposition but I hope my vocab series is helping make sense of some of the more common misunderstandings! If you have missed parts 1 or 2 they can be found here. Part 1 – annual, biennial, perennial & deciduous. Part 2 – mulch, compost, manure/fertiliser & trace [...] Click to read more »
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