@LG_ Ditto. Clematis fell off the fence and I can't get it back properly but ive tied it close. Maybe it'll grab hold. If not,I'll have very low growing clematis this year. I can live with that. Better than what has happened further north.
Along with super-bum and bigi-bbum, my favorite plant name is Clitoria ternatea. Imagine, a whole genus of clitoria! Uk sellers are calling the 'butterfly bush'. They missed a trick there.
Some geum names put me off. Fortunately, as I've pretty much gone off most of them anyway. foliage plants like hostas, I just look at the leaves and don't notice the names. Roses are an issue, though.
Dorothy Perkins the (former) shop was named after Dorothy Perkins the rose which was of the first roses to be named after someone, in this case the American breeder Charles Perkins’ granddaughter in 1901.
I always thought that, as a fashion shop, Dorothy Perkins could not have a more fusty name. However it does not beat the chutzpah of Clarence Birdseye naming frozen foodstuffs after himself.
I don’t mind roses named after people if they are pretty obscure or it’s an OK name, or French, but those called Mum’s Special Rose, Grandad’s Favourite or Happy Birthday etc. would definitely put me off. As would one called William and Catherine. Thank god they didn’t name one Harry and Megan!
Fortunately roses often have different and better names in other countries so I call them the one I like. Parfum de Provence sounds so much better than the UK name ‘The Anniversary Rose’ or the US ‘Dee-lish’.
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foliage plants like hostas, I just look at the leaves and don't notice the names.
Roses are an issue, though.
I always thought that, as a fashion shop, Dorothy Perkins could not have a more fusty name. However it does not beat the chutzpah of Clarence Birdseye naming frozen foodstuffs after himself.
Fortunately roses often have different and better names in other countries so I call them the one I like. Parfum de Provence sounds so much better than the UK name ‘The Anniversary Rose’ or the US ‘Dee-lish’.