RE: The Green Thumb Thread
February 12, 2011 at 11:51 am
(This post was last modified: February 12, 2011 at 11:56 am by KichigaiNeko.)
(February 11, 2011 at 8:03 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Hehe. My roommate MAKES me name things, but I do it with the common names. She calls it a "test" for my plant classes.
Yeah....it can be a real pain. I spent 4 years learning the botanical names of several hundred plants both Euopean and Australian native perculiar to the Sydney Basin. It has become such a habit now that I have to think in 'Botanical lingo' THEN I can get to the Common Name....weird I know

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