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custardtart321 · 2024-03-20T22:04:01+00:00

I've been sent this as a gift but no note as to what it will be. Any ideas? Thanks!

MereDintofPandiculation · 22/03/2024 10:01

LittleGreenDragons · 21/03/2024 22:46

Thank you @MereDintofPandiculation! I know what I will be buying for my new house this year

Wild daffs are so pretty! With a delicacy which is lacking from some of the hybrids

Yamadori · 22/03/2024 18:41

MereDintofPandiculation · 21/03/2024 21:17

Yes, I think a lot of people do that. I think you're talking about the "poeticus" division with white outer petals and minuscule orange "trumpet" are often called "Narcissus" though also widely known as "Poet's daffodil".

Geranium/Pelargonium is incorrect naming - I presume that Pelargonium were originally in the genus Geranium but were moved out ... yes they were, but were moved out in 1789. Gardeners mus have long memories

Nasturtium is another similar - "Nasturtiums" are Tropaeolus whereas Nasturtium is a genus in the Cabbage family which includes watercress.

Rosemary was the other way around - two separate genera on the basis of physical characteristics, found to be the same genus on the basis of DNA. So now Rosmarinus officinalis is now Salvia rosmarinus - that was a bit of a shock to the system.

Sorry. I was one of those children who sorted smarties into separate colours before eating. I like everything in its place. There's probably something deeply wrong with me.

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I was one of those children who attempted to cross-pollinate pansies with violas in our garden with a paintbrush, collected the seeds, and tried to grow new varieties!

MereDintofPandiculation · 22/03/2024 19:48

Yamadori · 22/03/2024 18:41

I was one of those children who attempted to cross-pollinate pansies with violas in our garden with a paintbrush, collected the seeds, and tried to grow new varieties!

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That’s a bit advanced!

Yamadori · 23/03/2024 17:03

@MereDintofPandiculation My dad was a very keen gardener, and I was helping him prick out seedlings in the greenhouse by the time I was about 5. It was the sheer variety of different colour patterns in pansies that got me hooked on plant breeding. I would have liked to have studied at Kew, but it wasn't to be and in those days, school careers advisers were particularly rubbish (or at least ours was).

MereDintofPandiculation · 23/03/2024 21:00

Yamadori · 23/03/2024 17:03

@MereDintofPandiculation My dad was a very keen gardener, and I was helping him prick out seedlings in the greenhouse by the time I was about 5. It was the sheer variety of different colour patterns in pansies that got me hooked on plant breeding. I would have liked to have studied at Kew, but it wasn't to be and in those days, school careers advisers were particularly rubbish (or at least ours was).

I was a late developer but by 8 or 9 I was growing cacti with my mother, and entering them in the local cactus show. There was only one other girl entering. I hated her with a passion!

AllTipAndNoIceberg · 23/03/2024 21:11

One of my favourite narcissus varieties is confusingly called Narcissus ‘Geranium’. 🧐