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aquilegia:
Sometimes when I read messages on this board, as well as many other sites, books, etc about gardening, I start to think I'm learning a whole new foreign language.

Just in the top tips forum, I encounter skanking and riddling. Now I know what a skank is and I know that riddling is a medication for hyperactive children, but I didn't realise they had anything to do with gardening.

I love how specialist areas always have their own language.

Any other terms I should be aware of?

Doris_Pinks:
Aquilegia, I am just off up to me lottie to use my Swap and hooker!  DP

aquilegia:
OK DP - now I have a very strange image of what you do at your lottie! So to stop my overactive imagination - what is it?

Palustris:
I spent the afternoon cutting up Elizabeth  and tying up Jacqueline Du Pres.

Hugh_Jones:
Eric reminds me of the story of the fanatical rose grower who always referred to his dear wife as "My little Dorothy Perkins".  She got so fed up with this that she finally looked it up in a rosegrower`s catalogue and found the description...

"no use in a bed, but does very well when standing against a wall"

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