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A Gardener's Latin - The Language of Plants Explained (Hardcover)
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A Gardener's Latin - The Language of Plants Explained (Hardcover)
Series: National Trust Home & Garden
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An exquisitely illustrated, lively exploration of Latin plant names
for gardeners. More than just a dictionary, this fascinating book
explains the meanings behind hundreds of Latin plant terms, their
flowering times, leaf patterns, natural habitats and all sorts of
other useful information. Every gardener needs to know their Latin
names. They may look confusing at first, but once you understand
what certain key words mean, impenetrable-sounding and
hard-to-pronounce species names are suddenly demystified. Many
Latin names hide the secrets of where the plant is found, its
colour, flowering times, leaf pattern, natural habitat and all
sorts of other information that's extremely useful to the gardener:
if you want a plant for a shady place, choose one with a name
ending in sylvestris ('of woods'), while if your garden is dry,
look out for the suffix epigeios ('of dry places'). More than just
a dictionary of plant names, this fascinating book explains the
meaning of hundreds of Latin plant terms, grouped into handily
themed sections such as plants that are named after famous women,
plants that are named after the shape of their leaves, plants that
are named after their fragrance or the time of year that they
flower. Within these pages you'll learn that Digitalis purpurea
(the common foxglove) is purple, that the sanguineum in Geranium
sanguineum means 'bloody' (its common name is the bloody
cranesbill), and to steer clear of any plant whose Latin name ends
in infestus.
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