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Watching gardeners world and realise you’ve been saying everything wrong

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  • glasgowdanglasgowdan Posts: 632
    What about Lonicera? I always emphasise the "cer", but ol' croaky emphasised the "nih" sound. 

    Good thing is I buy most of my plants from a massive trade supplier so they tend to know how to pronounce things. 
  • Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713
    I am no good with Latin names as many of you will have realized but I too called cottoneaster cotton easter at first - oh dear!
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    I think it's best to pronounce it how you like and assume everyone else is wrong :) 


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    A still bee ?
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Yes Nut.  The main thing after all is that people understand which plant you're talking about.

    Fire - I must have missed that thread but nothing wrong with leaping.
    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)."
    Plato
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    You can listen to three or four different tv gardeners and they’ll all say them differently. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • ThankthecatThankthecat Posts: 421
    CLEM-er-tiss for me, although I think I used to pronounce it differently years ago... 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Clématite for me now - unless chatting to OH and reminding him not to speak in front of them.  He once made a disparaging comment in front of a montana and it had wilted by the next morning.  Hard to make a montana wilt so he's banned from talking to plants now.
    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)."
    Plato
  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053
    Kal-an-co-ee just to help. Eschscholzia - I pronounce it as eh-shawl-zia. Could be wrong with that one.
    'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    "He once made a disparaging comment in front of a montana and it had wilted by the next morning."

    I'll have to remember to keep any disparaging comments to myself. Mind you, if I give my acer a funny look, he throws all his clothes off and goes into a huff for months. He's a right bloomin' prima-donna. He's on last warning. If he does any nude tantruming in August, he's out. There's no place for that kind of spoilt behaviour in my house, I said. Get dressed and play nicely with the other plants, I said. Look how polite all the other plants are, I said. (We don't talk about Armand).
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