This Word Junkie column is a pocketful of uncommon, garden-related terms you can drop into conversation like seeds: some precise, some poetic, all pleasantly weird.

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When I started solving the Times Crossword in earnest as a teenager in the 1980s, the clues I found toughest were about what ...