On 2009-11-07 16:57:39 +0000, K said:

Sacha writes
On 2009-11-07 13:30:44 +0000, K said:


On 2009-11-04 21:17:24 +0000, Jess N said:

Thanks evryone!
I promise I'll remember the latin I just need a other name to say only
to myself in my head so I know what I'm talking about!
I wish I had had latin lessons when I was in school. Quite alot of the
names are descriptive but the only ones that make any sense to me and
ones like alba and niger etc..
I'll pick it up one day, got ages!
Thanks again.

Of course, it's a lot easier for old ladies, many of whom know Latin.

OI!! One term, old lady yerself!! ;-)

You were not my target ;-)

I'll sleep better for that reassurance. ;-)) I wonder if there's some
trick of the brain to learning these plant names - something
subconscious, I mean. I forget peoples' names in seconds and what is
worse, I attribute to them names I think they should have but don't
possess. We know a wonderful woman I persist in thinking of as Olga
and her real name could not be more different. This happens to me from
time to time and it's terrible embarrassing as I have to pause to make
sure I'm going to call them by the right name! But for some reason,
plant names go in and (mostly) stick. I can't begin to explain it
because my parents weren't great gardeners, did not know Latin names
and I only started to pick them up in my early 30s from my outlaws.
Perhaps it's because they called everything by their Latin names from
the get-go when talking to me about making a garden.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics.
South Devon