Plant ID

[Maggiethecat]

This has sprung up and am considering removing but want to check what it is first.

Thanks!

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Give over with the spoon-feeding. You're not the only self-appointed expert on here, you know.

Some of us on the gardening board know that stuff already. Been there, read the 'Latin for Gardeners' book. Other pp's are perfectly capable of finding out for themselves should they want to, which they probably don't, but good on them if they do. What those enthusiastic and keen-to-learn posters don't want is to be patronised or made to feel stupid.

Getting a touch of the Mansplaining vibes from this.

You're not the only self-appointed expert on here, you know. Ouch! Apologies to everyone if I’m guilty of spoon-feeding

I love that the committee that annoyingly changes decides the names of plants has, itself, had a name-change!

Is it possible it's a bot? I'm going to report in case. It feels a bit like that.

If not ... meh, I am a professional horticulturalist and studied Latin to post-PhD level, so please do keep 'teaching' me, I definitely need it.

The actual issue wasn't Latin names. It was the fact that it is quite rude to ignore someone who has already niftily made a correct identification. Of course anyone can do that by accident, but when it's pointed out to you, you really ought to acknowledge it rather than digging deeper.

TheSarahAndQuackWhoseNameIsAlreadyAboveThisPost

We're all self-appointed experts, aren't we?! And why not.

But @Yamadori is spot on that there's a huge difference between sharing expertise and making people feel stupid.

@thesustainablegardener You write like a bot and have popped up on other threads giving IDs that other people have already given. If you are a real person you’re behaving very strangely.

@MereDintofPandiculation Don’t worry, you’re always perfectly polite and I really enjoy your wonderfully informative posts.

@thesustainablegardener You write like a bot and have popped up on other threads giving IDs that other people have already given. If you are a real person you’re behaving very strangely.

@MereDintofPandiculation Don’t worry, you’re always perfectly polite and I really enjoy your wonderfully informative posts.

AIBU to think I’ve stepped on to the wrong board 😉

Seriously, I’ve learned so much on here from people who are so kind and generous with their knowledge and am genuinely grateful for all the help I receive.

@Yamadori - thank you for being so quick to ID the Elaeagnus. I was able to decide quickly that I’d replace it with a camellia that I wanted to put in the ground for years!

No doubt I’ll be back soon with another ID request 😊

@MereDintofPandiculation your posts are always very informative and non-patronising, I really enjoy reading them.
(I name change a lot but contribute to gardening threads quite often).

Thanks @SarahAndQuack ,@FictionalCharacter ,@Babychewtoy . I love sharing knowledge that delights me, and I try to give reasons for an id (else how is the poor OP to know which of half a dozen ids is the correct one?), but I'm not very good on people skills, so am quite capable of irritating without meaning to.

These plant recognising apps have taken all the fun out of naming plants you recognise -maybe posters could put something in the way of the plant pic eg a trowel so that the apps are foxed and then leave the posters to battle it out!

that is the one, with the whitish down

I was talking about me! 😂😂😂

(and by the way, I think you're a proper expert anyway)😎

@SarahAndQuack I wondered about that too.

No, I’ve just been gardening a long time

... and who knows stuff.

Random facts stick to my brain like to flypaper.

You are the real expert, in your field. I will always defer to you on anything tree related

Random facts used to stick to my brain too, but it is as old as me and I can't rely on it any more. Nowadays I use the Einstein method - you don't actually have to remember everything, you just need to remember where to look it up!

It’s names which are my problem. I have to sneak up on them sideways. If I look straight at them they disappear.

Yes - you look at it and you know exactly what it is.

It's a... whatsitsname... a thingamajig... ooh it's on the tip of my tongue... and then a load of Latin comes at you out of nowhere and people look at you like 🙄