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Post by Jardack on Nov 24, 2007 18:52:58 GMT
ok, if you're speaking in common I am a tasty little flyer....
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Post by Barbara on Nov 24, 2007 19:07:58 GMT
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Post by Jardack on Nov 25, 2007 11:31:17 GMT
close, you are halfway there...
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Post by Weeterrier on Nov 25, 2007 15:53:12 GMT
Go on Barbara, you can do it  |
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Post by Weeterrier on Nov 25, 2007 15:54:05 GMT
ok, if you're speaking in common I am a tasty little flyer.... Are we harking back to the garter situation here Jardack?  |
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Post by Barbara on Nov 25, 2007 17:07:01 GMT
rocket lettuce?  ;D |
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Post by Jardack on Nov 25, 2007 19:13:51 GMT
ok, if you're speaking in common I am a tasty little flyer.... Are we harking back to the garter situation here Jardack? ahem! I knew I shouldn't have posted that |
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Post by Jardack on Nov 25, 2007 19:14:29 GMT
Barbara - it is a flower if that helps  Jardack |
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Post by Weeterrier on Nov 25, 2007 20:18:24 GMT
I THINK I can give Barbara a clue. (Unless I am thinking of the wrong flower  ) It's Latin name is the same as a wrecked Ship, as in "The wreck of the ............." |
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Post by Barbara on Nov 25, 2007 20:41:18 GMT
titanic ;D
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Post by Jardack on Nov 25, 2007 22:06:39 GMT
WeeT I just had to google the latin name to see if it was a ship! It came up with a poem about a wreck so think you are thinking of the same one as me |
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Post by Weeterrier on Nov 25, 2007 22:33:48 GMT
Barbara, you are being silly now  ;D |
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Post by Barbara on Nov 26, 2007 16:00:47 GMT
who me |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2007 16:22:09 GMT
Ummmm ... Hesperis matromalis - Sweet Rocket?  |
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Post by Jardack on Nov 26, 2007 19:39:33 GMT
yay well done I must admit to looking through plant names on the Crocus website till I found one I could think of an abstract way of describing! Jardack |
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Post by Biggles on Nov 26, 2007 20:00:03 GMT
JD---- I wouldn't have got that one in a month of Sundays--I am useless with the Latin names for flowers--  Oh Sorry read your clue again and saw "in common"--meaning the Common name for-- |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2007 13:46:23 GMT
Oh dear ;D. I'm named after an eccentric lady who scattered my seeds in friends' gardens ... Beautiful from afar, I can be quite prickly up close ;D
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Post by Plocket on Nov 27, 2007 14:43:46 GMT
Lady whatsits Ghost
Miss Wilmot's Ghost?
Eryngium something or other
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2007 14:47:07 GMT
Yup, that's it Plocket. Apparently if Mis Wilmott liked you she'd scatter nice things like that in your garden ... if she didn't, she'd scatter pernicious weeds ;D ... cheers ...
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Post by Plocket on Nov 27, 2007 15:35:17 GMT
I like her style Oh crumbs now I've got to think of something - I'll get my cap ;D |
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Post by Plocket on Nov 27, 2007 15:51:02 GMT
I'm named for a famous beauty and can be found in absinthe
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Post by Barbara on Nov 27, 2007 16:46:10 GMT
is it artemesia (sp)
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Post by Weeterrier on Nov 27, 2007 17:12:58 GMT
Yup, that's it Plocket. Apparently if Mis Wilmott liked you she'd scatter nice things like that in your garden ... if she didn't, she'd scatter pernicious weeds ;D ... cheers ... Thanks for the tip.............I might try that ;D |
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Post by Plocket on Nov 27, 2007 19:16:35 GMT
No not artemesia
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Post by Barbara on Nov 27, 2007 19:25:39 GMT
well WHAT then |
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Post by Jardack on Nov 27, 2007 19:38:08 GMT
heheheheh @ Barbara! I have no idea either tho |
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Post by Shrubrose on Nov 28, 2007 6:58:39 GMT
Angelica?
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Post by Plocket on Nov 28, 2007 8:02:59 GMT
No not Angelica.
Named for a famous ANCIENT beauty/woman.......
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Post by nightowl on Nov 28, 2007 14:57:46 GMT
Plocket, are you sure it's not Artemesia??? I've just Wikkied Absinthe and it says "Wormwood" ( Artemesia something-I've-forgotten-now) Surely Barbara should have that one? |
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Post by Barbara on Nov 28, 2007 15:45:32 GMT
cleo(bloody)patra is the oldest beauty i can thunk of,
and she aint a plant (this isdoinmy eadinsmiley) ;D
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