Handicap: an allocation of strokes on one or more holes that permits two golfers of very different ability to do equally poorly on the same course.

A tap-in is a putt that is short enough to be missed one-handed.

Hoeing: A manual method of severing roots from stems of newly planted flowers and vegetables.

It's often necessary to hit a second shot to really appreciate the first one.

Hole in One: an occurence in which a ball is hit directly from the tee into the hole in a single shot by a golfer playing alone.

Bulb: potential flower buried in Autumn, never to be seen again.

The true definition of a perennial: Any plant which, had it lived, would have bloomed year after year.