RHS Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored: More than 1,500 Essential Plant Names and the Secrets They Contain

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The earliest recorded Chinese gardens were created in the valley of the Yellow River, during the Shang Dynasty (1600–1046 BC). These gardens were large enclosed parks where the kings and nobles hunted game, or where fruit and vegetables were grown. Early inscriptions from this period, carved on tortoise shells, have three Chinese characters for garden, you, pu and yuan. You was a royal garden where birds and animals were kept, while pu was a garden for plants. During the Qin dynasty (221–206 BC), yuan became the character for all gardens. [10] The old character for yuan is a small picture of a garden; it is enclosed in a square which can represent a wall, and has symbols which can represent the plan of a structure, a small square which can represent a pond, and a symbol for a plantation or a pomegranate tree. [11] An essential addition to the gardener’s library, this colorful, fully illustrated book details the history of naming plants, provides an overview of Latin naming conventions, and offers guidelines for pronunciation. Readers will learn to identify Latin terms that indicate the provenance of a given plant and provide clues to its color, shape, fragrance, taste, behavior, functions, and more. Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-09-28 . Retrieved 2011-05-18. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link)

But this is not always the case. For example, with Pedicularis attollens there is no entry. For this one I could find a wiktonary online entry with the meaning: lifting, elevating, raising. Or, sometimes a plant can have several common names, making it hard to recognize whether or not someone is talking about a species you know. Take for example agastache (commonly known as Hummingbird Mint or Hyssop) or Jacobaea maritima (commonly known as Silver ragwort or Dusty Miller.) The various names have nothing in common. WHAT ARE BOTANICAL NAMES MADE UP OF? Paniculata means the flowers form in loose clusters or panicles like the Hydrangea paniculata above.

Singh, Ram Bachan (1976). "Cities and parks in ancient India". Ekistics. 42 (253): 372–376. JSTOR 43618748. Alpinus comes from the mountains like the Alpine aster above ( Aster alpinus) which is native to the Alps. The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), founded in 1804 as the Horticultural Society of London, gained its present name in a Royal Charter granted in 1861. The Royal Horticultural Society is one of the world’s leading horticultural organizations and the UK's leading gardening charity dedicated to advancing horticulture and promoting gardening. The most common form today is a residential or public garden, but the term garden has traditionally been a more general one. Zoos, which display wild animals in simulated natural habitats, were formerly called zoological gardens. [3] [4] Western gardens are almost universally based on plants, with garden, which etymologically implies enclosure, often signifying a shortened form of botanical garden. Some traditional types of eastern gardens, such as Zen gardens, however, use plants sparsely or not at all. Landscape gardens, on the other hand, such as the English landscape gardens first developed in the 18th century, may omit flowers altogether. Best of all it is used globally so the confusion created by local names or foreign languages is no longer a problem.

Alexander concludes that you could waste a lot of time arguing about it all. But, ultimately the most important thing is to know which scientific names the common names refer to and how those names are spelled. For gardeners, a working knowledge of botanical Latin for the accurate identification of plants in the garden is essential. It is easy to figure out that a plant with umbellatus or umbellifer in its name is going to be shaped like an umbrella while columnaris will be shaped like a column.Dunnett and Clayden, Nigel and Andy (2007). Rain Gardens: Managing Water Sustainably in the Garden and Designed Landscape. Portland, OR: Timber Press. ISBN 978-0-88192-826-6.

Vital to the protection of plants, gardens and green spaces for future generations, the RHS helps over two million school children get into gardening and supports more than 1,700 communities to create their own gardens, encouraging people to grow their own food. Shrigondekar, GK (1961). Manasollasa of King Somesvara (Volume 3) (in Sanskrit). Oriental Institute, Baroda. Lindenmayer, David; Claridge, Andrew (2003). Wildlife on Farms: How to Conserve Native Animals. Csiro. p.25. ISBN 9780643068667 . Retrieved 29 August 2022.Landscape architecture is a related professional activity with landscape architects tending to engage in design at many scales and working on both public and private projects. [5] Etymology [ edit ] For other uses, see Garden (disambiguation). A section of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden that has pink Prunus 'Kanzan' cherry trees Oxford Dictionaries". Oxford Dictionaries. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29 . Retrieved 2007-05-24.