Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored digging & weeding on a soft uni-sex T-shirt

on a soft uni-sex T-shirt

400 full-color maps and illustrations

this portable-sized field guide takes a new

This complex ecological community of plants and animals is not just a feature of the hills around Hollywood

Full color illustrations throughout

Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored digging & weeding on a soft uni-sex T-shirtSince Latin became the standard language for plant naming in the eighteenth century, it has been intrinsically linked with botany. And while mastery of the classical language may not be a prerequisite for tending perennials, all gardeners stand to benefit from learning a bit of Latin and its conventions in the field. Without it, they might buy a Hellebores foetidus and be unprepared for its fetid smell, or a Potentilla reptans with the expectation