A Gardener's Latin: The language of plants explained (National Trust Home & Garden)

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The final -in derives either from the Frankish inflected form *gardin or is a Romance diminutive of * gard (compare Old French jart alongside jardin, Medieval Latin gardinus). Russian: садо́вничать (ru) ( sadóvničatʹ ) ( colloquial ); огоро́дничать (ru) ( ogoródničatʹ ) ( in vegetable garden; colloq. To accurately distinguish between them, each is assigned a unique name - often referred to as the Latin name, the scientific name or the botanical name. Latin names can give you useful information about a plant, including its colour, where it originates from and growth habit.

And depending on where you live, you might know my favorite perennial as blazing star or gayfeather. is a plant that has a minor difference to the species, such as leaf colour, flower colour or fruit, that occurs in the wild, such as a population of wild flowers in which a significant contingent are a different colour. This name game was first addressed in the 1700s by Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carolus Linnaeus. Fascinating feature spreads retell the adventures of important plant hunters such as Sir Joseph Banks and Alexander von Humboldt, and explain how their discoveries affect the way our gardens look today.

To view the purposes for which they believe they have a legitimate interest, or to object to this data processing, please use the vendor list link below. This is the human condition vividly described by the Book of Genesis when it tells us that God placed the human being in the Garden of Eden, in the middle of which there stood “the tree of knowledge of good and evil” (2:17). Scan through this list of around 900 words and discover what the two word / binomial plant name tells us about plants. Its charitable work includes providing expert advice and information, training the next generation of gardeners and promoting the ecological, aesthetic and psychological benefits of gardening in an urban environment.

However I have asked questions, sought advise and been guided without any hesitation from the group members and Stephan. Botanical plant names can look off-putting and complicated, but they're actually quite simple once you get the hang of them. And they aren’t so difficult to understand once you remember many words we use everyday come from Latin.

Linnaeus’ International Code of Botanical Nomenclature dictates that a plant name start with a capitalized genus, followed by a lower-case species, then either a variety (if naturally occurring), cultivar (if created by a breeder) or hybrid name (if it’s a cross between two plants, indicted by an “x”).

and they and their garden will benefit from understanding the wealth of information that has hitherto lain hidden within the mysterious world of Latin names. Roses, strawberries, apples, and hawthorn are members of the Rosaceae family and tomatoes, potatoes, chillies and deadly nightshade all belong to the Solanaceae family. John Parkinson, “The Situation of a Garden of Pleasure, with the Nature of Soyles, and How to Amend the Defects that are in Many Sorts of Situations and Grounds”, in Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris.Many scholars disagree with this Biblical interpretation, which is included as evidence of the word's usage in 1995 rather than the intended meaning of Biblical Hebrew גַּן‎ ( gan ) in 950 BC.