Gardening definitions
By wagger
34 comments
FURROW: Horizontal line on forehead of gardener.
GARDEN: One of a vast number of free outdoor restaurants opened by
charity-minded amateurs in an effort to provide healthy balanced meals for insects, birds and animals
HOSE: Crude but effective and totally safe type of scythe towed through gardens to flatten flower beds and level vegetable plantings.
NURSERY: The only known place where money grows on trees.
PERENNIAL: Any plant which, had it lived would have bloomed from year to year.
BULB: Potential flower, buried in autumn, never to be seen again.
DROUGHT: Weather immediately following planting.
HARDEN OFF: Kill by frost.
HOEING: Manual method of severing roots from stems of newly planted flowers and vegetables.
GREEN FINGERS: Black fingernails
- 10 Jul, 2009
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You love it really lol :))
10 Jul, 2009
Thats a corker Wagger, Carol thinks I'm having another turn !!!!! :~)))
10 Jul, 2009
Spot on Wagger.
10 Jul, 2009
Made me laugh Wagger and oh so true........
10 Jul, 2009
brilliant and so true on every count
10 Jul, 2009
Thanks Wagger...all very true! Good Friday feeling giggle! :0)
10 Jul, 2009
The hose two days ago. The hoe yesterday.
10 Jul, 2009
Great Wagger, very true could'nt stop laughing.
10 Jul, 2009
lol :o)
I needed a laugh tonight :o)
10 Jul, 2009
Well done Wagger. We can all recognise those definitions as so true!
10 Jul, 2009
Great definitions and, as said befoe, so true. Brilliant.
10 Jul, 2009
LOL..LOL
11 Jul, 2009
LOL :o)
11 Jul, 2009
Brilliant !
That really made me chuckle :)
11 Jul, 2009
lol brilliant blog
11 Jul, 2009
Brilliant Wagger. They are all oh so true but the hose one especially when my husband is on the other end of it!
11 Jul, 2009
LOL...brilliant Did you make all these up yourself Wagger ?
11 Jul, 2009
No, Bonkers, a local source. Wish I was that clever.
11 Jul, 2009
Got another one...WEED : Prolific and reliable ! Lol
11 Jul, 2009
Lol.
11 Jul, 2009
Ha...ha Wagger.....How true!!!
11 Jul, 2009
Good one Wagger....lol
12 Jul, 2009
Spot on Wagger. What brilliant definitions ;-))) lol..............
12 Jul, 2009
Brill! What about "Leek" - something I found, to my fury, after unravelling and conecting the garden hose, so had to spend 2 hours running back and forth with watering cans, lol!
12 Jul, 2009
I've got a couple of those too, David, lol. Gaffer tape does quite a good temporary repair.
12 Jul, 2009
`brilliant definitions~I hate hose pipes!
13 Jul, 2009
:-)
14 Jul, 2009
Excellent, espeshially the black fingernails (reminds me of those awful Carry On films)
14 Jul, 2009
Awful Weeding ? Nay only us Brits could produce such classic rubbish ..brilliant.
14 Jul, 2009
This is halarious do you mind if I email it to my brother, hes in the army and not had much chance to play in his garden
x x x
15 Jul, 2009
Carry on, Mookins. Anything that can give our forces some light relief must be a great idea.
16 Jul, 2009
thank you so much
hes very much like me or vice versa so will love this
thanks again
x x x
16 Jul, 2009
Thanks for this great list - loved it, and Bb's addition! :-)
16 Jul, 2009
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Good definitions. :o) Lol.
10 Jul, 2009