"Why don't you take ___-day off" works nicely for me, especially now that my "part time" job turned into full time.

ken I looked at your link but did not understand it. Maybe I did not get sufficient winter chilling. Al

i dont think you did al ... lol ...

the link takes me to a google search of SPRING EPHEMERALs ...

ken

Oh yes, love the spring ephemerals! In fact, I'm looking forward to a few I bought last year to come up this year. They may not flower, but to see them come up will have me all giddy that they actually survived. I think my favorite word is germinate, when all the little flower seeds I sow germinate into baby plants, and to watch them grow into the beauties I know they'll be. Or hope to be, with the case being my daylily crosses.

Karen

dibble
the Lady of the Manor turned to Inspector Morse and asked "Do you dibble?"

humulus lupulus aureus

viticella purpurea plena elegans

It is ethnically insensitive, but a Christopher Lloyd term for sneakily/illegally taking starts of a plant one covets is "Irish cuttings".

It's a phrase that gets used around our house on occasion (not that I'd ever do such a thing).

Zigadenus elegans "Death Camas"!

Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Filifera Aurea Pendula'

Just flows off the tongue.

tj

P.S. Most perplexing term- average garden soil.

P.S. Most perplexing term- average garden soil.

==>>> why not go opposite...

my most perplexing term.. in a post.. SHADE ...

ken

For me it is "once established". Al

My favorite term: espaliered

I would love to see dwarf apple trees espaliered in my yard!

Funny term- Stooling. Hee, hee, hee, stooling. It brings out the inner 12year old in me, not that I say it very often, lol!
I am curious to know how the term started, or then again maybe I don't! ;-D

My favorites- SALE RACK! And PLANT SALE! ;-)
CMK

I've always liked to say Euphorbia amygdaloides 'Purpurea' for the way it rolls off of one's tongue.

The "dibble" is a good one.

I also have a hard/fun time with "prostrate". ;)

I love Polychroma spurge euphorbia because it makes people hearing it go cross-eyed. My plant is 20 years old and just as beautiful now as it was the day I bought/planted it.

Anemone pulsatilla kept my mother and I in stitches when she gifted me with a volunteer she dug up. Sadly, I set it on the back bumper and I'm guessing it didn't stay there a full mile on the drive home. Sigh. I sure miss that little guy/girl.

My current favorite is Extended Bloom Period/Long Blooming. I want to see blooms that last more than a day, a week or a month or at least other blooms that open and take the place of the faded ones.

These aren't really favorites, just some random word fun -

Sporobolis heterolepis - sounds like a rare skin disease

"Leps" for Lepidoptera

"Hems" for Hemerocallis (just learned that one from a seller over at the Lily Auction)

How about the occasional poster that really mangles the word "perennial" and spells it "perineal"

More confusing garden terms - what is the difference between "partial sun" and "partial shade"?

Rain forcasted.

"I would love to see dwarf apple trees espaliered in my yard!"

Me too! I've been working at it for 5 years and they still look like carp. lol

tj

I love the sound of SPRING EPHEMERALS too. But the garden term that makes me laugh the most is "blooms true blue." RIGHT....

For plant names, I'm with christinmk. I go all 12 year old. My favorite is the aptly named Peter Pepper.

ampelopsis brevipedunculata

Chamaecyparis nootkatensis 'Pendula' - a made up name if ever I heard one

I sometimes get stuck with a plant name in my head, usually the long ones with alliteration or assonance -
Chamaecyparis pisifera Filifera

When buying plants I'm a sucker for "rare" and "Hard to find".

But I like bumblebeez "Rain forcasted."

Rubus cockburnianus.

Tsuga, I'd love to see a picture of your trees that look like fish!

thalictrum rochebrunianum I love the way it rolls off the tongue.
moist well drained soil
my 12 year old word/phrase Gomphocarpus physocarpus hairy balls plant

SUCCULENT
I think this word says its ALL!

"Wow!"

I like potager and espalier.
I said ephemeral today. :)
I like it, too.

Gottagarden, do you also like 'hard to find' after you have planted?

Actually, I often do like the "hard to find" plants. I have great soil, regular rainfall, and a green thumb, so I can grow most anything for my zone, unless it's a desert type plant. I have garden clubs come every year, and despite gardens of overflowing phlox, iris, salvias, etc. they are always drawn to the unusual, something they haven't seen before. "Hard to find" often means "slow to grow, and doesn't like dividing", not necessarily difficult.

Gottagarden: yes, I know. But can't 'hard to find' be translated to 'disappearing after being planted' too?

i am still trying to figure out what stooling is .. lol

ken

It's what my dog does everyday in the yard.

Karen

Stooling means cutting down a tree so that only a stump is left.

-Ken, lol! Exactly. I'm sure most people would get a very unpleasant mental image if I said it out loud! Lol.

The RHS gives a good definition of "stooling" in the garden (hee, hee) and how it is different than pollarding/coppicing: the meaning of stooling.
CMK

But can't 'hard to find' be translated to 'disappearing after being planted' too?

haha, yes, and I've had those too! Oftentimes, I will completely forget about it until I see it in a magazine and remember - Hey! I planted that once. Whatever happened to it? Actually have a big list of those!

irish or irishman's cuttings actually means taking either a basal cutting with a bit of attached root (delphs, auricula, campanula) or is sometimes used when taking a cutting with a bit of heel attached - Christopher Lloyd was not really known for ethnically derogatory euphemisms - his term for such opportunistic taking of cuttings was generally stealing, robbing, helping themselves or even nicking.

I think I'm thinking of the wrong Christopher Lloyd....

Dee

An alliterative Clematis that always made me smile is Lady Betty Balfour. But for really unique names you must turn to the daylily world. Where else could you find a cultivar named "A Moose Fishing On A Pond On Monday", or "Snake In The Grass Boo". Both are reportedly good modern daylilies and certainly would be a conversation piece in the garden.....Maryl