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writes I've lurked for ages, just posting occasionally. I do hope my pond orientated posts don't annoy. My garden is about 20ft square, nearly half is pond now. Most people here seem to be 'real' gardeners, something I'd love to be if I had the room! I dream of retiring to a large old house with half an acre..........yeah.....dream on. In the past, I've grown carrots, Swede, peas, runner beans, lettuce etc, but until recently, especially sweet corn......great picked and straight on the BBQ Now, I only have pots Something which bugs me, is the use of the Latin names for plants. I realise that if you are really into gardening, these things are important, but to the likes of me........an interested wannabe, they are meaningless. It would be nice if folk could call plants by their 'common' name perhaps with the Latin in brackets? What do you think? Thanks for a great friendly group. The problem with common names is sometimes there are several different vernacular names that apply to a single plant (I've recorded 13 applying to Lagunaria patersonia), and sometimes one vernacular name applies to several plants, and sometimes both at once. The situation with botanical names is not perfect, but not as potentially confusing as with vernacular names. Many botanical names are used happily by people who don't necessarily realise that they are using them - for example Geranium (cranesbill, when not being used for Pelargonium), Aster (michaelmas daisies, etc, but also used for several other genera such as Callistephus, Stokesia and Tithonia), Hibiscus, Chrysanthemum (except that the botanists now call the florists' chrysanthemums Dendranthema), Dahlia, Thuja, Cotoneaster, Pyracantha (firethorn), Amelanchier (juneberry?), Narcissus, Gladiolus (sword lily), Hosta (plantain lily), Agapanthus (African lily), ... -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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