Good morning all 😊 We’ve overslept!!! 😴🥱 OH is making the ☕️.... I am trying to wake up ...
Lazy tart.... Morning all/afties Pat. I assumed that was the reason she hadn't been round,but wasn't sure. She really is a pain. I've always thought rosemary flowers looked like sage, so I expect that's the reason. It would be hard to think of it as anything else but rosemary though. Re the pelargoniums - there was a thread just the other day about them, and I asked the OP which it was. I'm not sure they actually came back to clarify. People do sometimes get a bit shirty about correct names, but how else can you give correct advice if you don't have the right plant?
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gloomy here too, still, it’s only a month until the shortest day then it’s uphill from then on, plants will enjoy the rest, daffodils are popping through here.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I stand corrected - pelargoniums it is! I'm probably old-fashioned, I still think in imperial measures not metric. It's gloomy and wettish this morning and I had hoped to plant the remainder of my bulbs. It may have to be in pots on the dining room table because they are trying to shoot and I should have bought and planted them weeks ago
pelargonium/geranium was probably a bad example, Lizzie. You're right in principle, though. I still call high/low telephones 'sedums'. Mostly because my brain hasn't found a way to get the high/low telephone name right yet. It's not really the fact of the changes so much as the obscurity (and un-pronounce-ability) of the new ones they come up with. Rosemary is, as you say, likely to carry on being rosemary. If for no other reasons than there's not much risk of confusion with something else and lots of people have old cookery books.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Morning all. Surely " Rosemary " is a "common name" so it doesn't have to change? I've never seen a recipe or entry on a menu mentioning "rosmarinus" . My bug bear is the changing of Buddleia to Buddleija which just seems silly. I can't get my head round the new sedum name, but in terms of spelling , I'm happy that schizostylis has been changed to Hesperantha
I've just responded to your query on that Geranium thread I was talking about @Dovefromabove. I'd forgotten alll about it. I only remembered because of the chat here. I agree with you about the complex names they seem to be replacing the former ones with @raisingirl. The sedum one is mind boggling. I love Schizostylis as a word though, so - although tricky for spelling, I wish they'd left that one
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Didnt sleep that well but I was cosy and warm so that will do.
Have a good Monday folks.
Morning all/afties Pat. I assumed that was the reason she hadn't been round,but wasn't sure. She really is a pain.
I've always thought rosemary flowers looked like sage, so I expect that's the reason. It would be hard to think of it as anything else but rosemary though.
Re the pelargoniums - there was a thread just the other day about them, and I asked the OP which it was. I'm not sure they actually came back to clarify. People do sometimes get a bit shirty about correct names, but how else can you give correct advice if you don't have the right plant?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Ground hog day again, sitting in front of my light box, only way I will get any daylight here.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
It's gloomy and wettish this morning and I had hoped to plant the remainder of my bulbs. It may have to be in pots on the dining room table because they are trying to shoot and I should have bought and planted them weeks ago
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Surely " Rosemary " is a "common name" so it doesn't have to change? I've never seen a recipe or entry on a menu mentioning "rosmarinus" .
My bug bear is the changing of Buddleia to Buddleija which just seems silly.
I can't get my head round the new sedum name, but in terms of spelling , I'm happy that schizostylis has been changed to Hesperantha
I agree with you about the complex names they seem to be replacing the former ones with @raisingirl. The sedum one is mind boggling.
I love Schizostylis as a word though, so - although tricky for spelling, I wish they'd left that one
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.