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Why Latin names matter

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    oooooh., never knew it was called gayfeather, I shall grow more.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    elitist and homophobic? pah.
    Devon.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Elitist, homophobic, socialist and a BREMOANER.
    Is there no hope for me?
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2018
    i once lived in a house called Gate House ... my slightly deaf granny sent a card addressed to Gay Towers  :o

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    @Dovefromabove was that in the Devon village of Fairycross?
    Image result for fairy cross devon

    Isn't that the most beautiful bus stop in the world? ( apart from the one on the other side of the road )
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It should've been Hosta, but it wasn't ... that is gorgeous  :D

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I drive past it/ them regularly and they always make my day better for seeing them.
    Devon.
  • Mary370Mary370 Posts: 2,003
    Liatris.........first time having it in the garden.  Delighted with it, bees and other insects love it. 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I have called liatris lots of things but never Gay Feather.  It didn't like my Belgian garden tho I tried it in all sorts of spots to see if it would be happy.  

    Lots to be learned on this site, especially the ID threads.  I love the precision of the botanical names and the folklore aspect of the common names.  I have a Golden Rain tree and it is definitely not a laburnum.  Loathe that yellow tho I did admire Rosemary Verey's tunnel of it underplanted with alliums.  Trouble is it only looks good for about a week and then it goes minging and brown and dull.
    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
  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    Any idea why people, and I include myself in this, call pelargoniums geraniums? 
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