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Welcome to our podcast miniseries on beginner gardening with me, Sarah Raven and my great friend Arthur Parkinson.

We're going to talk in this first episode about the horrible word terminology, which is sort of the dictionary of terms that feel a bit intimidating if you

don't know what they mean. And all of this will be in the podcast notes. So you really don't need

to scribble down notes and the words and then the definitions, because I promise you, every single

one will be there for you to

download from the website. So we're going to start with the sort of glossary of gardening terms.

And then we thought we would just chat through about Latin names and whether you should use

them or not. And then finish with the gardening year. So take you through what Arthur and I do,

whether it be January, April, October, whatever, just describe in sort of simple terms what you

should be thinking of doing each month.

Arthur, will you tell me what an annual is, first of all?

An annual is a plant that lives all within one season, so it germinates as a seed, grows, flowers, sets its seed, normally within about six months.

And annuals divide into two groups.

One is called hardy.

And what that means is it can take the frost and it can actually live in the garden through the winter and come into growth again in the spring.

It won't get killed by the frost.

That's a hard annual.

And a classic example is a corn poppy that could get sown in a field after its mother has

flowered in the summer, in the autumn. It germinates, grows all the way gently through the winter,

and then in the spring and summer it comes into flower. A half-ardiannual, a classic example, and a plant that Arthur and I both grow lots of is a cosmos.

Now that comes from warmer climates and if that is subjected to frost it'll die.

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