Sedums will still be sedums here - as will dicentras. They can change their names as often as they want, but as I'm also slightly more than 27, it's hard enough remembering the name of things I look at every day without trying to cope with a new one
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I'm happy for names to change due to scientific research showing they're not all the same, but I'm not going to use " buddleja" just because someone looked and has decided the first description looks more like a "j" than an "i". That's just speculation. Buddleia for me.
It's not just gardeners affected, it's nurserymen and women, large scale plant producers, label producers and more. I can see the botanical and even economic importance of distinguishing between say a geranium and a pelargonium but not the need to change a sedum into something radically different.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I can't help wondering if the botanical, taxonomists sitting in their nice clean laboratories and peering into their microscopes ever get to do any actual gardening themselves. Or get muddy knees and soil under their finger nails.
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@Berghill,
"A rose is a rose is a rose"
Sedums will still be sedums here - as will dicentras. They can change their names as often as they want, but as I'm also slightly more than 27, it's hard enough remembering the name of things I look at every day without trying to cope with a new one
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I'm happy for names to change due to scientific research showing they're not all the same, but I'm not going to use " buddleja" just because someone looked and has decided the first description looks more like a "j" than an "i". That's just speculation. Buddleia for me.
Are botanists gardeners?
It's not just gardeners affected, it's nurserymen and women, large scale plant producers, label producers and more. I can see the botanical and even economic importance of distinguishing between say a geranium and a pelargonium but not the need to change a sedum into something radically different.
I like to see myself as both an (amateur) botanist and (amateur) gardener.
IMO, a little bit of botanical knowledge, is very helpful in becoming a better gardener.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I can't help wondering if the botanical, taxonomists sitting in their nice clean laboratories and peering into their microscopes ever get to do any actual gardening themselves. Or get muddy knees and soil under their finger nails.
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'