Re: plant names

**B* M* <b*@verizon.net>**

Quick example of what I would do.

The hosta looks great at your place. (common name)

Lady X's garden contains rare Hosta cultivars.  (Botanical name even without the species name.)

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 From: Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp <hoosiergardener@sbcglobal.net>
To: Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org> 
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: [GWL] plant names

Thanks, Suzy. I have an AP style guide and common names would not be upper case, but so many garden writers and hort people use caps for common names and that's why I was trying to see what the thinking was.

jems

On Feb 25, 2013, at 8:52 AM, Susan McCoy wrote:

I agree, Jo Ellen. No caps on common names unless it is actually part of the name. For example: The boy George vs Boy George. But an AP Stylebook expert can better direct us. 

Susan McCoy
Garden Media Group
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