RHS Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored: More than 1,500 Essential Plant Names and the Secrets They Contain

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This is a well made book, with beautiful illustrations and belongs on the bookshelf of every serious gardener. These are some of the questions answered in Peter Parker’s adventurous exploration of the mysteries of Botanical Latin.

The Royal Horticultural Society is one of the world’s leading horticultural organizations and the UK's leading gardening charity dedicated to advancing horticulture and promoting gardening. Readers will learn to identify Latin terms that indicate the provenance of a given plant and provide clues to its color, shape, fragrance, taste, behavior, functions, and more. I learned that a tomato Solanum lycopersicon is from the Greek lyco "wolf" and persicon "peach" so a tomato is a wolfpeach, but here the genus name Solanum was ignored. The charity also promotes horticulture through world-renowned flowers shows such as the Chelsea Flower Show, the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, the Tatton Park Flower Show and the Cardiff Flower Show. Overall a very good quality service from this seller and I would not hesitate to recommend this seller.

These dictionaries have been updated and revised over the years, especially to confirm new generic names we use today. A struggle to read but broken up nicely by example images, features on naming themes, and features on notable botanists. I also cherish A T Johnson’s Plant Names Simplified: Their Pronunciation, Derivation and Meaning (1931), a much smaller work which also inspired this book. It's important to be exact when using plants in the kitchen and knowing the meanings of the descriptive Latin binomial names is helpful for both herbalist and naturalist. Some things were obvious over my years of gardening, but this book explains the breakdown of the plant name and it is quite interesting.

The book also features of number of plants and botanists with short, informative and interesting articles. Since the English and German common names are obviously different, I like to know the botanical names for when I chat to my Mum on the phone – I often say names differently to her and we confuse each other! And they aren’t so difficult to understand once you remember many words we use everyday come from Latin. I particularly enjoyed her explanation of the Genus Achillea which is named for the Greek warrior Achilles who used yarrow Achillea millefolium to staunch the flow of blood from the wounds of his soldiers. It is rewarding to figure out the meaning of a plant name – it also really helps me to remember plant names!Then contact your credit card company, it may take some time before your refund is officially posted. of a durian ice-cream, but I do have this book, its very useful and interesting, the botanical illustrations are really lovely too. Learning the botanical names was my favourite part of the course when I was completing my first qualification as a horticulturalist, while the other students were groaning through the plant Id classes I was just enthralled, by the language of plant names, which sounded just so poetic and rolled off the tongue!

Financial Times Online RHS Latin for Gardeners is an informative, entertaining and beautifully illustrated unravelling of the mysteries of botanical Latin. Financial Times OnlineRHS Latin for Gardeners is an informative, entertaining and beautifully illustrated unravelling of the mysteries of botanical Latin.I imagine that the illustrations must be wonderful but they wouldn't be much of a joy when reading it on your Kindle. While it is not a book to sit down and read from cover to cover, the pages that highlight different plants or explain different types of plant names make for a nice mix of pleasure reading to go with the reference material.