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> Hyacinths on (what I fondly call) my rockery.
Everyone calls Hyacinths as Hyacinths , because this is the original name of the flower called Hyacinths , so why the author say: "what I fondly call"?
The context is :
>They tap our bedroom window on stormy nights. Hyacinths on (what I fondly call) my rockery. Boy-blue and girl-pink.
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Excerpted from David Mitchell's novel "The Gardener" partly(maybe you needn't read these words):
>Satin white, Persian purple, oil-paint yellow. When I planted these birches they were broomstick-height, and now look at them. They tap our bedroom window on stormy nights. Hyacinths on (what I fondly call) my rockery. Boy-blue and girl-pink. Through the kitchen double-doors I watch you eating supper – carrot and coriander soup – and leafing through Country Living Magazine, dreaming of houses uncluttered by reality, by half a lifetime of memories, perhaps.
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the phrase is referring to the rockery.
It sounds as though his rockery is a mess (what Reginald Farrar referred to as 'a dog's grave). Anyway, anyone seriously creating a rock garden wouldn't plant Hyacinths there.