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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Etymology of words referring to enclosures, probably from a Sanskrit stem. In German, for example, Stutt gart. The word is generic for compounds and walled cities, as in Stalin grad, and the Russian word for city, gorod. Gird and girdle are also related". Yourdictionary.com. Archived from the original on 2010-02-13. Common names, on the other hand, can vary widely from region to region. And often they are applied to more than one plant. For example, snowball bush can refer to a viburnum or hydrangea, depending on your region. Romansch: curtin m ( Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader ), curtgin m ( Sursilvan ), curtgegn m ( Sutsilvan ), curtgign m ( Surmiran ) Behind the tangled garden of microphones that had sprouted on the lectern, Goldwater spoke softly and casually about his family. This is a delightful little reference book with very pretty illustrations. I think that is probably necessary since really, the entire book contains short explanations and explanations of how the lists are organized with samples, and then lists and lists and lists of Latin words used in naming plants.

Chen, Gang (2010). Planting design illustrated (2nded.). Outskirts Press, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4327-4197-6.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. Alpinus comes from the mountains like the Alpine aster above ( Aster alpinus) which is native to the Alps. The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), founded in 1804 as the Horticultural Society of London, gained its present name in a Royal Charter granted in 1861. The Royal Horticultural Society is one of the world’s leading horticultural organizations and the UK's leading gardening charity dedicated to advancing horticulture and promoting gardening. Cantonese: 花園 ／ 花园 ( faa 1 jyun 4-2 ) Dungan: хуайүан ( huayüan ) Mandarin: 花園 ／ 花园 (zh) ( huāyuán ) Min Dong: 花園 ／ 花园 ( huă-huòng ) Min Nan: 花園 ／ 花园 (zh-min-nan) ( hoe-hn̂g / hoa-hûiⁿ ) Wu: 花園 ／ 花园 ( 1ho-yoe )

Scan through this list of around 900 words and discover what the two word / binomial plant name tells us about plants. It is easy to figure out that a plant with umbellatus or umbellifer in its name is going to be shaped like an umbrella while columnaris will be shaped like a column. Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-09-28 . Retrieved 2011-05-18. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link)And if you really want to nerd out, lose yourself in the International Plant Names Index (www.ipni.org), a collaboration between The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; The Harvard University Herbaria, and The Australian National Herbarium.

Bleeding hearts, once officially called Dicentra spectabilis, were moved into the newly created Lamprocapnos genus several years ago, and snapdragons, originally in the Antirrhinum genus, were transferred into the plantain family, Plantaginaceae, along with Digitalis, Hebe and Penstemon. We have the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus to thank for assigning Latin names to plants. In the 1700s, he developed a system for classifying plants according to genus and species. He supposedly chose Latin because it was a dead language and didn’t risk offending anyone who might then refuse to study horticulture.

Uncover the Meaning of Botanical Names

Just the other day, I was working with a bunch of Master Gardeners preparing a garden for the county fair when one of them noticed a bare space. Sure enough, in one of the central beds, a group of plants had recently given up the ghost on a prominent corner. In no time, we all agreed that a lacy evergreen would be the perfect replacement. And that’s when I suggested chamaecyparis. Blow on my garden [speaking of her genitalia], so the spices of it may flow out. Let my Beloved come into His garden [her pubic area] and eat His pleasant fruits.