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Re: Media glitches

>Ummm, fauna refers to animals. Flora is the term for generic plants.
Margaret L<
 
Absolutely right - meant to type both "Flora & Fauna" - but not Merriweather! ;-)
 
Well, for anti-plant propaganda there is always "Little Shop of Horrors" and Poison Ivy in "Batman 3."
 
My vote for best plant use ever is: Minority Report. The concept of a vine that acts as a border guard for your property is fantastic. The plant breeder portrayed is also done fairly well.
 
For TV plant use -- Wisteria Lane worst for the titled "Wisteria" which are always being in bloom -- love to move there if that is truly the case! Best goes to Twin Peaks for the orchid collector -- they got that in scrupulous detail.
 
I just saw a production this weekend of Midsummer Night's Dream and had never realized before how much Shakespeare talks about primroses and English wildflowers in the dialogue -- meanwhile, it is all set in Greece -- just not picturing an ancient Greek forest with
"love-in-idleness" growing there. So I guess even the Bard can take poetic license...
 
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
  Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
    Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
      With sweet must-roses, and with eglantine.
      - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Oberon at II, ii)
 
 
I had to look up that last one: eglantine   

(ĕg´lentīn) , name for various kinds of rose (family Rosaceae), chiefly sweetbrier , and for a honeysuckle (family Caprifoliaceae). The name eglantine has been much used in English poetry.
 
I think you can definitely get a column, if not a short book, out of the topic of plant use in media ;-).
 
Sincerely,
Kathy Jentz
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Washington Gardener magazine
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