The Denver Post: Learning plants’ Latin names helps gardeners make informed choices
NOLA.com: Plants can have nicknames, too. If you want to be specific, learn to call them by their Latin names
Plants can have nicknames, too. If you want to be specific, learn to call them by their Latin names
“The Gardener’s Botanical: An Encyclopedia of Latin Plant Names with More than 5,000 Entries” by Ross Bayton ($29.95, Princeton University Press): This 352-page hardcover book is a botanist’s dream ...
How are i.e. and e.g. pronounced? When I was in college, one of my philosophy professors instructed us to use translated English for abbreviated or initialized latinisms when reading a text aloud. I would agree that in most cases you should speak the translated English rather than speaking the letters of the initialization. i.e. is used for clarification and should be spoken "that is". While ...
Botanical names can be a pain. They can get stuck like broccoli in the mouth of a 6-year-old who hates vegetables. All gardeners — beginners to advanced — blush and sputter when trying to pronounce ...
The names we use for plants is critical to purchasing, communicating and learning about the plants we grow in our gardens and landscapes. For example, you might see a bush with pink flowers blooming ...
Latin might seem like an obscure, inscrutable language for naming plants. But it can open up the botanical world in ways you can’t imagine. By Margaret Roach The plants are trying to tell us something ...