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RHS Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored: More than 1,500 Essential Plant Names and the Secrets They Contain

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This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. Perhaps not a book that is essential to your gardening success, but a book that provides a good deal of entertainment and enlightenment. Since the English and German common names are obviously different, I like to know the botanical names for when I chat to my Mum on the phone – I often say names differently to her and we confuse each other! These shows exhibit the best in horticulture by providing show gardens, floral marques and expert advice.

On the other hand, you might expect a plant with the epithet melliodorus ( Eucalyptus melliodorus) to be foul-smelling, but actually its name means it has the scent of honey. RHS Latin for Gardeners by Lorraine Harrison explains all those tricky-to-pronounce botanical words attached to our dear plants, herbs and flowers. It's important to be exact when using plants in the kitchen and knowing the meanings of the descriptive Latin binomial names is helpful for both herbalist and naturalist. For instance, in Atlas, one of my favourite chapters, Parker divides his plant lists between general, habitat and named geographical regions.

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is the UK's largest gardening charity, dedicated to advancing horticulture and promoting good gardening. The Royal Horticultural Society is the UK's leading gardening charity dedicated to advancing horticulture and promoting good gardening. Vital to the protection of plants, gardens and green spaces for future generations, the RHS helps over two million school children get into gardening and supports more than 1,700 communities to create their own gardens, encouraging people to grow their own food. Unfortunately we cannot offer a refund on custom prints unless they are faulty or we have made a mistake.

Vernacular names for plants may be pretty but they are often regional and so quite useless for speaking to people round the world as we do with our blogs. I learned that a tomato Solanum lycopersicon is from the Greek lyco "wolf" and persicon "peach" so a tomato is a wolfpeach, but here the genus name Solanum was ignored.No negativity, no-one criticises what some would think is an easy question, just loads of help and encouragement delivered with a smile. I would love to see another edition from the author, maybe with the title- "Latin for Gardeners II-3,000 more plant names explained and explored. It is rewarding to figure out the meaning of a plant name – it also really helps me to remember plant names! Readers will learn to identify Latin terms that indicate the provenance of a given plant and provide clues to its color, shape, fragrance, taste, behavior, functions, and more. However, I didn't know what the Latin names were based on so this book was fascinating in learning those details.

Now that plant names are no longer nonsense syllables to memorize, I have no trouble remembering them.

I still have much to learn, but plant names are so interesting – not only the Latin words, but also the botanists’ names that are so often used.

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