Green thumbs looking to add to their gardening vernacular need look no farther than wordspy.com, a website dedicated to tapping in to the English language's latest words.
Impress your garden-loving friends by working these zingers into your next over-the-fence conversation:
Extreme gardening: Gardening that takes place in hostile or difficult conditions (think springtime in Calgary).
Potscaping: Artfully arranging shrubs and flowers planted in pots and other containers.
Guerrilla gardening: The surreptitious or unauthorized planting of flowers, shrubs, vegetables, and other flora in a public space.
Heirloom seed: A type of seed that has been passed down through a number of generations; a type of seed that is traded between individual gardeners rather than through a seed catalogue (you can actually bid for these online).
-- Postmedia News
