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Gardening/horticulture

0 If you enjoy growing flowers, vegetables and trimming trees, etc. in your own garden, do you enjoy GARDENING or HORTICULTURE? 02br
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0Gardening would certainly be more natural, though you could say horticulture. 050010id1

— Meneldil

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0Gardening would certainly be more natural, though you could say horticulture. 050010id1
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0 I'd say "horticulture" refers to the job. Horticulturers do garden, but not all gardeners are horticulturers. 0-
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0 Horticulturalist reflects a more serious attitude really, they are the sort of people who know all the Latin names for the plants, make their own compost, grow their own veg and enter 'best display of 5 leeks' competitions down at their local horticultural society. 02br
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00It would be slightly pretentious for an amateur gardener to describe themselves as horticulturali
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