Re: Plant ID?

The least they could have done would have been to call it PERUVIAN Wonderflower, FCOL! What's Japan got to do with it?

I think that the folks hosting these garden shows should be told...
And who's going to tell them - who, that they'd listen to? and does it really cause lower attendance? If I were inclined to go to such shows, I'd enjoy a good laugh and i'd pester the heck out of the vendors on the actual names.

Speaking of making up names....along the same lines that, in the plant name Buddleia 'Peacock', Peacock is a trademark name, the real name is 'Peakeep'....Dannon Yogurt has come out with a new yogurt called Activia which contains a bacteria called Bifidus RegularisT . Regularis is their trademark name for, for...for what? It's not a species name and they don't tell you in any brochures, ads, website; they are very vague. I googled around and found on their Canadian website that they call it Bifidobacterium lactis and give it a trademark name of BL. I don't like all these made up names because it always seems to hide something. and in this case, my suspicion is that they are hiding...NOTHING. It's so vague that I think it's probably just a lot of marketing hype and it's really no better than other yogurt
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Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "Daryl" <pulis@mindspring.com>
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Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Plant ID?


My sister was at Maymont also and unfortunately got suckered into buying the "Japanese Wonderflower". She knows Four o'clock, since we grew it when we were kids, but the sign wasn't very descriptive and the name was deceptive. And "Flowering Fern" my foot!

I think that the folks hosting these garden shows should be told in no uncertain terms that allowing unscrupulous vendors to deceive unknowing buyers will result in lower attendance and or negative publicity. What do you think?

d


----- Original Message ----- From: "MICHAEL HABIB" <godihabib@verizon.net>
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Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Plant ID?


Jim and Daryl,
Thanks for IDing the hardy gloxinia. I bought three tubers at the Maymont flower show in Richmond. Those pretty Dutch girls didn't seem to know too much about the plants. The show seemed a bit empty this year, because a lot of the vendors were at the DC home and garden show.
We had 8 inches of snow last night. Ok, we had our winter, let's move on to spring!!
Godi zone 7
Mt. Vernon, VA
----- Original Message ----- From: "Daryl" <pulis@mindspring.com>
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Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 6:18 PM
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Ah, thanks. I think it might be. http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/factsheets/bulbs-summer/incarvillea.html
I knew I'd seen it before.
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