Her previous titles include How to Read Gardens and The Shaker Book of the Garden, and she regularly contributes to Gardens Illustrated and Hortus magazine. I find his approach down to earth, (no pun intended), while his knowledge of the growing of fruit and vegetables is extensive. org), a collaboration between The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; The Harvard University Herbaria, and The Australian National Herbarium. Russian: садо́вничать (ru) ( sadóvničatʹ ) ( colloquial ); огоро́дничать (ru) ( ogoródničatʹ ) ( in vegetable garden; colloq.

Sometimes within a species, small groups of plants can be found that are subtly different from the norm, having evolved in a distinct geographical area. A Rosa rugosa (Japanese rose) will be recognised as such whether you live in Manchester, Melbourne or Mumbai. As a novice I joined this group thinking I would just read the tips and hints on growing fruit and vegetables. They are all likely to need similar growing conditions and will have similar pest and disease tolerance.The “genus” is the larger of the two groups and can be equated to the use of a last name like “Smith. Again, ‘Acer’ means maple while the descriptive ‘palmatum’ means shaped like a hand, and it is derived from ‘platanoides,’ meaning “resembling the plane tree.

Latin words for the genus or species of a plant are descriptive terms used to describe a specific type of plant and its characteristics. Behind the tangled garden of microphones that had sprouted on the lectern, Goldwater spoke softly and casually about his family.Vainilla, the orchid pod from which vanilla comes, is derived from the Latin word “vaina,” which means vagina (have you ever really looked at an orchid flower? They can tell you a lot about a plant, too, including its main characteristics and where it hails from originally.

Many scholars disagree with this Biblical interpretation, which is included as evidence of the word's usage in 1995 rather than the intended meaning of Biblical Hebrew גַּן‎ ( gan ) in 950 BC.Often, this is the name of the person who bred or discovered the plant, or they might be named after another significant figure.