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Liansekate wrote:

Hi there,
Each time I buy a indoor plant or look something up that's related to
any kind of gardening I get entirely lost in all the terminology, Latin
names, etc.

I would like to get improved at gardening and growing things devoid of
having to get my degree in horticulture. Are there any sources
(websites/books) for beginners who don't understand all the "big words”?

Gardening rarely requires you to go polysyllabic. In any event there is
usually an appropriate four letter word to replace it, manure, for
example, has a number of four letter replacements, phosphates (bone
meal), and potassium (wood ash). Peduncle could be tricky, because it
requires a 5 litter word (stalk), but you could just as easily get by
with stem.

If worse comes to worse, "Google" the word, or use a book called a
dictionary, sometimes found in an antiquities (old) store, to look it up.

You learn the words through use, but start with the monosyllabic ones,
and if you stick with it, the others will follow.
--
- Billy

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