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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Jul 24, 2007 19:07:57 GMT
I have a confession to make......(already confessed on AF but have to do it here too now ;D )
Whenever I see a plant when I'm out and about with mates/family...or when I'm watching television and plants come into view...I feel compelled to mention the name of the plant out loud...and am usually smug as a smug thing if I'm right....you know the sort of thing...
'Well I wouldn't plant a ricinus communis in a family garden...'
'OOH LOOK, a trachycarpus fortunei....'
I prolly get at least half of them wrong.....my sister is a keen gardener and she's as bad as me...and a lot of the time OH wouldn't know if I'm right anyway....
I didn't do Latin at school...went to a Comprehensive you know...can you think of any Latin sounding alternative names for common garden plants....?
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Post by MamIDdau on Jul 24, 2007 19:42:29 GMT
I have the same problem CPB. When I'm on my round, obviously going up people's driveways, I talk to myself identifying the plants in their gardens. Had to stop myself breaking off a bit of a woman's rosemary bush (ooer!) this morning... I forgot where I was for a moment! A woman also has some purple sage growing in her garden and it looks really nice in her border.
I'm glad I don't actually see half of these people because I'd never get my round done by the time I'd finished talking about their garden and talking them into giving me cuttings ;D
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Post by Plocket on Jul 25, 2007 15:42:18 GMT
OMG I usually feel awful when I can't ID something - which is a regular occurance, especially when it's mum asking me and she seems to think I'm a gardening guru!!! I can name the plants in MY garden - but haven't a clue about much else!!!  |
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Post by Chuckles on Jul 25, 2007 16:22:17 GMT
I think I'll call everything Craftmomentus variegata ;D Useless at names, do know a few but they don't always pop into my little head when I want them too and Latin names well  |
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Post by Weeterrier on Jul 26, 2007 15:23:24 GMT
Yes, I try to name everything I see, and it HAS to be the Latin name, or I think I'm going senile. I did make up one Latin name, which I used for a whole border of plants. It was Stolenoffa skippii. When I worked in a garden centre, I would retrieve as much as I could from what had been discarded into the skip, even if it was almost dead, look after it and replant. Unfortunately, too much has flourished and I'm now at the stage of having to find homes for three trees which will be monsters eventually. At the time of planting, I doubted that they would survive.  |
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Post by Chuckles on Jul 26, 2007 17:31:14 GMT
I did make up one Latin name, which I used for a whole border of plants. It was Stolenoffa skippii. love it  |
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Post by Shrubrose on Jul 26, 2007 17:57:46 GMT
wt, joyful. ;D I used to salvage plants that a GC had just tossed over an embankment. Used to call these 'bounty' this, 'bounty' that. Not latin but helped me monitor their success, or otherwise, though most were.
I do find myself calling out the names of plants I know or think I know when watching gardening shows, or visiting gardens. Sure it must irritate the hell out of OH but he's a gud-un and doesn't complain!!!
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Post by Weeterrier on Jul 26, 2007 18:14:23 GMT
wt, joyful. ;D I used to salvage plants that a GC had just tossed over an embankment. Used to call these 'bounty' this, 'bounty' that. Not latin but helped me monitor their success, or otherwise, though most were. I do find myself calling out the names of plants I know or think I know when watching gardening shows, or visiting gardens. Sure it must irritate the hell out of OH but he's a gud-un and doesn't complain!!! How could he complain with a wife like you? ;D |
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Post by JennyWrenn on Jul 27, 2007 5:33:22 GMT
Oh dear me too but a short while ago made a fool of myself by enthusing about my friend's Josephine Clem - I was looking at the wrong clem - well it was rather similar I do this at Garden Centres and I get on my own nerves after a while ;D |
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Post by Shrubrose on Jul 27, 2007 6:37:48 GMT
wt, joyful. ;D I used to salvage plants that a GC had just tossed over an embankment. Used to call these 'bounty' this, 'bounty' that. Not latin but helped me monitor their success, or otherwise, though most were. I do find myself calling out the names of plants I know or think I know when watching gardening shows, or visiting gardens. Sure it must irritate the hell out of OH but he's a gud-un and doesn't complain!!! How could he complain with a wife like you? ;D wt,  |
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