My free, no-nonsense guide to those puzzling gardening words that confound, confuse or are downright comedy.

When I started gardening, it felt like an alienating, foreign language that only special, talented people who had gardening in their blood were permitted to understand.

So here's a guide for the baffled, the perplexed and the time-poor among us.

This guide will help break down what you really need to understand and why. I've grouped it into

• words to describe plants,

• some confusing gardening tasks

• soil sayings.

You can download it, screen shot it, print it, scribble on it - it's yours to keep!