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July 26, 2011

What do you mean by native?

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"What do you mean by native?"

That's as difficult a question to answer as "What do you mean by organic?"

Also, what's the difference between a hybrid and a cultivar?

If you hare having trouble mastering your gardening vocabulary, Joel Lerner offers help.

In an article written for The Washington Post, Lerner, president of Environmental Design in Maryland, takes a shot at defining the most common -- and some of the newest -- mis-used terms in horticulture.

Take a look. There will be a quiz Friday.

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Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.

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