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

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Acres are such drama queens aren’t they😀
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Ceratostigma  plumbaginoides anyone? Otherwise known as "thingy"
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    I have always said clema-tis, just to confuse matters.
    <thumbs up>
  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    Lizzie27 said:
    Ceratostigma  plumbaginoides anyone?
    The species sounds a bit Hobbitish :smile:
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    plumbaginoides? Good grief.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited May 2018


    Omphalodes. I pronounce it in my head 'umph-a-loi-dees' just because it sounds so great. It's one of my favourite words. Which probably doesn't exist.
  • Ornithogalum adseptentrionesvergentulum? Crepidiastrixeris denticulatoplatyphylla?
  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    Ornithogalum adseptentrionesvergentulum? Crepidiastrixeris denticulatoplatyphylla?
    To ring the changes, what's the shortest "Latin" plant name?
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I love omphaloides - both name and plant.

    When you think about what it is, a teeny wee plant with dull, almost black leaves and occasional blue flowers, ophiopogon planiscarpus nigrescens is a bit OTT.
    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
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Ah, are omphaloides and omphalodes different. -oides means 'looks like', right? So omphaloides look like omphalodes.  I remember Monty saying how lovely the -oides were and I have tried many times to grow from seed and failed every time. The -oides seem quite hard to find as grown plants. I'd love to grow it just so that I can say 'umph-a-loi-dees' a lot.
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