By joenesgarden, 7 months and 29 days ago

Epithet Lesson

One of the best aspects of learning comes when you are able apply lessons learned to things near and dear. I was able to do this in one of the first lessons in my landscape design class.  The assignment: learn the meaning of many of the epithets – the second word that adds some sort of descriptor to the first (genus) botanical name.  Cool … I always wanted to be better versed in botanical names.  So I headed for my stack of plant magazines, then my notebook of info about the plants in my own gardens, and started my list.

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