Noooooooooo! How are the ignorant among us ever to catch up? I like sedums, they look after themselves. Its a conspiracy like crazy spelling to confuse the unwary and I'm not joining in.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
Oh Joyce! I'm over 27 and I don't know the old names. I like wildflowers, they have much easier and nicer names, stuff like Germander Speedwell, Dove's foot cranesbill, Rose-bay Willow herb...........
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
Blame DNA testing. Plants which were lumped together as being related because they looked similar are now being found to not be related after all. That means that the old name is no longer valid in Botanical terms that is. According to Botanists you cannot call a Rose a Rose if it is not a Rose.
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Noooooooooo! How are the ignorant among us ever to catch up? I like sedums, they look after themselves. Its a conspiracy like crazy spelling to confuse the unwary and I'm not joining in.
OMG ... how am I supposed to remember that ... I'm 27!!!
Hi-low whats?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
From wikipedia
Sedum telephium, often called Hylotelephium telephium,
Not in this garden it isn't..
Remember when they changed crysanths to dendrasomething and there was an outcry so they changed it back. Taxonomy gone mad. Sedums for me.
Not only are some Sedum now called Hylotelephium but others are now Petrosedum and Phedimus
... and most asters are now called Symphyotrichum;
Dicentra spectabilis is Lamprocapnos spectabilis,
Etc.
"That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
I will be sticking to the names that I and other over 27s know.
Oh Joyce! I'm over 27 and I don't know the old names. I like wildflowers, they have much easier and nicer names, stuff like Germander Speedwell, Dove's foot cranesbill, Rose-bay Willow herb...........
......and as well as Hylotelephium,Petrosedum and Phedimus there are still some which are called Sedum!
Blame DNA testing. Plants which were lumped together as being related because they looked similar are now being found to not be related after all. That means that the old name is no longer valid in Botanical terms that is. According to Botanists you cannot call a Rose a Rose if it is not a Rose.