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Tree names

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preggobrain · 06/04/2010 21:42

I am desperate for an individual name for a girl. It has been suggested on another thread that vegetable names are the new flower names, but I don't want to surf anybody else's wave, tbh, so I am now investigating Tree names.

Is it a good idea?

I am thinking Yew at the moment.

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UniS · 06/04/2010 23:36

holly, laurel, may, rowan, hazel, apple maybe

Yew will get her teased and other people confused about what her name is.

I know willow and bay as boys names rather than girls.

I suspect a lot oftree names are so old hat we forget they are tree names at all and just see them as names.

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LaRagazzaInglese · 06/04/2010 23:23

Rowan
Willow
Hazel
Cherry
Holly
Laurel
Ash
Bay

Blossom
Lettice
Leif
Basil
Rosemary

Yew is the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard (if you're being serious, that is)
Hi this is Yew, that's Mi and she's Hymn!

wukter · 06/04/2010 23:20

Dara is Irish for oak tree, it's lovely.

Cauliflower? It's both veg related and floral. You could spell it Colli-Fleur.

gingerkirsty · 06/04/2010 23:14

How about Laburnum? It has pretty yellow flowers and the added advantage of being poisonous, making it highly likely to be unique...

SirBoobAlot · 06/04/2010 23:05

How about Tree Nymph?

angel886 · 06/04/2010 23:03

More unusual:

Calendula
Cannellini
Fennel
Karelo / Karella
Okra
Tamarillo

All fruit / veg / flower related...

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preggobrain · 06/04/2010 22:47

How are you pronouncing Mulch? If it's with a soft sh, it could work.

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KnottyLocks · 06/04/2010 22:46

Singing-Ringing?

ilovepiccolina · 06/04/2010 22:46

Magnolia

livviloo · 06/04/2010 22:44

Briar (thorny rose bush so not really a tree)

Clary · 06/04/2010 22:37

I knew an Acacia once (I really did). Bit of a spiky shrub tho (not really a spiky child).

SirBoobAlot · 06/04/2010 22:34

Hmm... Point taken.

How about Green-Waste? A bit more girly, and along the same lines.

Habbibu · 06/04/2010 22:34

Mulch

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preggobrain · 06/04/2010 22:31

That's quite masculine though, SirBoobalot. And a bit terroristy for my taste.

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SirBoobAlot · 06/04/2010 22:28

Compost-Bin?

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preggobrain · 06/04/2010 22:28

Acacia is nice. But my surname is a word for a street, so it could look a bit silly, unfortunately- too similar to Acacia Avenue.

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Takver · 06/04/2010 22:27

Tis very bizarre why tree names are so common for men & women, but flower names only for women, and fruits/veggies not at all. . .

Anyway, if it helps, I know people called:
Rowan (m&f)
Willow (m)
Ash (m)
Holly (f)
Aspen (f)
Oaks (m - poss his surname, but the name he goes by)
Larch (m)
Ivy (f)
Hazel (f)

The question is, why no Birch, Alder, Elder or Elm?

Habbibu · 06/04/2010 22:26

Eden-Project?

SirBoobAlot · 06/04/2010 22:25

Would that be Garden Centre or Garden-Centre, Shaz?

Shaz10 · 06/04/2010 22:23

SirBoobAlot or Garden Centre?

SusieCarmichael · 06/04/2010 22:23

acacia

Habbibu · 06/04/2010 22:23

preggo, surely the effect of Yew on the playground test would be to make you the Pied Piper on Hamlin.

SirBoobAlot · 06/04/2010 22:23

Why don't you spare yourself the trouble of picking a specific plant or tree and just go for Greenhouse?