Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored Illustrated Books 300 range maps

300 range maps

White to pale blue flowers bloom in spring and summer

Does best in cool damp locations

Details:Paperback200 pages7" x 9"

Growth Rate Slow Endangered N/A Growth Habit Prostrate

Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored Illustrated Books 300 range mapsSince Latin became the standard language for plant naming in the eighteenth century, it has been intrinsically linked with botany. And while mastery of the classical language may not be a prerequisite for tending perennials, all gardeners stand to benefit from learning a bit of Latin and its conventions in the field. Without it, they might buy a Hellebores foetidus and be unprepared for its fetid smell, or a Potentilla reptans with the expectation