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writes JennyC wrote: "BoyPete" wrote in message ... 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. ßôyþëtë Hi I too am very bad with the Latin name....but they can be confusing as people call things different names in different parts of the country. Also Latin can be handy when looking for stuff - especially on the net. I use these sometimes to translate stuff: http://www.pp.clinet.fi/~mygarden/diction2.htm http://www.plantpress.com/dictionary.html Jenny Using Latin names is confusing enough for me, but why do they so often seem to change plant names? The botanical names of plants reflect botanists opinion as to how they should be classified. Botanists change their opinions as new evidence is uncovered. There is also the eternal war between the lumpers (who place more plants in a single species or genus) and the splitters (who divide them into more species and genera). But botanical names are not all that unstable - many of them go back all the way to the mid-18th century. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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