{"id":126340,"date":"2022-05-08T14:15:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T07:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/relax-you-dont-have-to-be-a-proper-gardener\/"},"modified":"2022-05-08T14:29:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T07:29:47","slug":"relax-you-dont-have-to-be-a-proper-gardener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/relax-you-dont-have-to-be-a-proper-gardener\/","title":{"rendered":"Relax, you don\u2019t have to be a \u2018proper\u2019 gardener"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nYour plants will never judge you, so don\u2019t worry about getting it right or making a mistakeIt\u2019s that time of year when even the most resolute non-gardeners look out at the spring sunshine and the riot of growth going on outside their windows and feel a pang of curiosity. Yet I think that many of these timid first timers often feel excluded from embracing the joys of horticulture because of a few deep-rooted cultural myths. Whether it\u2019s memorising all the complex rules that daunts you, or the fear of mispronouncing Latin names, here are three ideas that we should liberate ourselves from, so we can all enjoy the wonder of the botanical world.I\u2019m going to start with this: even as a botanist of over 15 years, I am forever finding the old-guard in horticulture \u201ccorrecting\u201d my pronunciation of scientific names. It\u2019s weird for an attempt at a power move, because all it displays is a poor understanding of why we use them in the first place. You see, botanical Latin isn\u2019t actually Latin, but a strange mishmash, including ancient Greek and a whole host of other languages from Polish to German, and these days even languages like Mandarin. The whole point of doing it this way was to create a universal naming system to avoid confusion, meaning each plant has one definitive name that anyone in the world can use. So say them however you like. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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