RE: renaming plants
Even in groups that should know better, it is a tough fight to get them
to use the botanical names around here. At our club greenhouse, as we
transplanted our seedlings, I moved them all alphabetically by the
botanical name. Thought that would be simple....
Huh! No one can find anything :) I was vetoed, and they dragged out my
master list and moved them by common name... of course the crude markers
only had the botanical name on them... so they are still swearing at
me...
I give up...
Donna
> Marge wrote:
> >>...new gardeners can only absorb a certain amount...learning a
botanical
> name is no more difficult than learning a
> common name if you are just exposed to it enough. I don't know why
> we in the US have to be convinced that something requires no effort
> in order to not be scared away from it<<
>
> Marge,
> I didn't begin gardening until I was nearly 40 and the magazine that
got
> me
> started was Horticulture which often discusses plants that have no
common
> name. Since I had no background whatsoever and no friends or family
even
> remotely interested in the subject, I took university classes. So I
> pretty
> much learned from the get go to use botanical names. Even on my
beginners
> level, Rudbeckia seemed easy enough rather than Black-Eyed Susan.
>
> Kitty
>
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