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Plant Pronunciation, Part 3: Garden Beasts and Dread Diseases
Learning the story behind a plant's name can be just as interesting as watching it grow in your garden!Plant Pronunciation, Part 2: Botanical Tongue Twisters and Other Pronunciation Struggles"100 Flowers and How They Got Their Names"; Diana Wells; 1997;...
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Genus, Species, and Cultivars, Oh My?
Nicholaus wrote a great article onif you need some convincing. This is a quick reference, reminder, or education for anyone who has a tough time (and most of us do at one time or another) with botanical Latin.
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Why is this the \
Once the page for the Camptotheca genus was available, it was up to me to find out as much as I could about the plant and then input the correct information. Space was needed for daily tractor-trailer truckload deliveries of hundreds of potted plants...
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For the thousandth time, it\'s NOT a palm
But they are never asking about any of them- they are asking about a Pachypodium, a spiny succulent from Madagascar that is not even closely related to a true palm).I get inquiries about cabbage palms (of which there are dozens of true palms with this...
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Hostas: It\'s not Always About the Leaves
ClickColorful hosta leaf stems impart a more subtle beauty. Hostas originally came from China, Japan , and Korea, where they're native.(1651-1715), a doctor and botanist with the Dutch East India Company.He sketched them, wrote descriptions of them, and...
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Frankincense, Gold and Myrrh ... what are they?
Well, it turns out that like a lot of good things, they started out as plants! Perhaps it was meant to be useful for boyhood scrapes and scratches!Today, myrrh is sometimes an antiseptic ingredient in dental preparations.
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A Hardy Garden Perennial that Flowers Like an Orchid
More generally, the leaves are considered an herbal remedy for a number of ills. Case in point: Melittis, commonly called "Bastard Balm." Some European gardeners turn their noses up at this beauty, because it's not a true orchid and so is considered an...
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Who in the World is Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold?
The government charged him with high treason and with being a spy for Russia.On October 22, 1829, the Japanese ordered von Siebold into house arrest, imprisoned all of von Siebold's known students, searched his house numerous times, and confiscated all...
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Jungle Tree Names
The hairy walnut is a type of laurel tree. According to the Chambers Wildlife Rainforest Lodges, the color of the tree's large fruit ranges from orange to yellow with no hair on the fruit.The Jamaican cherry fig or Ficus Americana is a small tree that...
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Name That Green!
It has a mild flavor but the stems grow in a variety of tangy colors—red, orange, yellow—as well as white. Swiss botanist Karl Koch is said to have been the first to classify it, and it became associated with him for scholarly reasons, not culinary.
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Italian Flower Names
These trees display showy flowers before bursting leaf buds. Individuals chew Angelica's sweet leaves to freshen breath.Also known by the common name "speedwell," Veronica flowers in early summer and continues through autumn.
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Flowers Named After Instruments
The bulbous area of the inflated stems may be used by wasps to store food and to incubate larvae.Botanist John Manning of South Africa named a rare flower the vuvuzela, or Moraea vuvuzela, after the horn instrument of the same name to celebrate the first-time...
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Names of Farm Equipment
A bale thrower is an add-on that makes stacking your bales on the wagon a whole lot easier. Once you know what kind of tasks you expect your truck to perform, you can find the right size and look at the makes and models available to you.
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The Properly Named Garden
These plants would bring me a peace beyond their pretty flower.Daylily, 'Marianne Cox' (photo courtesy of Nancy Oakes of Red Lane Gardens)In my life I've had friends, and then I've had Jan, Anne, and Allison.y college girlfriends whom I don't talk with...
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Names of Asian Flowers
Through the release of carbon dioxide, Australian scientists found that lotus flowers can maintain a temperature of 85 to 90 degrees F even when the outdoor temperature drops to 50, according to "Heat of Lotus Attracts Insects and Scientists," published...
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Names of Purple Roses
The rose bush is medium size, about 5 feet tall at maturity, and stands upright. Its purple-blue shade is what makes this rose unique. Expect the rose bush to grow to 3 to 4 feet tall when fully grown.
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What\'s In a Name?
“Hi!” I said, happily. I'm practicing raising just one eyebrow, so that I can deliver the proper facial expression when I say, condescendingly, “You mean soil ?” Improve your garden's soil with help from HobbyFarms.com: 5 Ways to Prep Soil for...
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Fruit Desserts By Name
Apples, berries, fruit desserts, dessert name, crisp, cobbler, pears, pies, tarts, Judith Hausman Making plans for Thanksgiving triggers thoughts of apple and pumpkin pies. Quince?) Grunt is synonymous with the Pennsylvania Dutch duff or with “slump,”...
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Names of Water Plants
Plant in pond baskets or pots to prevent the lilies from overgrowing in the pond.Sagittaria, or arrowhead, grows beneath the water in shallow areas near the edges of ponds and water features.
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Names of Lavender Roses
While the color may not be as vibrant as other lavender roses, this classic beauty has a traditional rose smell. Resistant to most diseases, the "Angel Face" rose is easy to grow in home gardens."Barbra Streisand" is another hybrid tea rose with a strikingly...
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Names & Colors of Azaleas
It is cold hardy between USDA zones 3 through 7, as opposed to My Mary, a cultivar for zones 5 through 8. 'Wahsega,' like many azaleas, stands alone as a specimen shrub or works in groups.
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Names of African Flowers
The bulbs can be planted at any time of the year. A perennial, African daisies average twelve to eighteen inches in height. The flowers are white and pink, and bloom in clusters. During the growing period in spring, water your plant daily, as African...
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Names of Climbing Plants
In dramatic instances, they can even kill old-growth trees. They're notable for their hairy texture, though a number of other thick vines also have a hairy skin. Vines can be beautiful, lining a tree trunk, trellis or building facade with green leaves...
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Martok Talks about Names
Mom likes to make people groan. The Web Helps, Too But the best place of all, she says, for finding names is a website called Names by Chinaroad . (Though, Dad sometimes calls them Sodom and Gomorrah).
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Plant Names from Myth: Iris
So spake he, and wind-footed, swift Iris failed not to hearken, but went down from the hills of Ida to sacred Ilios. The name they gave it was "agallis." [170] And as when from the clouds there flieth snow or chill hail, driven by the blast of the North...
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Plant Names from Myth: Daphne
The Olympic Games, for example, were dedicated to Zeus, and the victors received a crown of olive leaves.Plants http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License They can also be invasive in some circumstances, but they are grown primarily for...
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Plant Names from Myth: Narcissus
It was a thing of awe whether for deathless gods or mortal men to see: from its root grew a hundred blooms and it smelled most sweetly, so that all wide heaven above and the whole earth and the sea's salt swell laughed for joy.
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