I suppose naming plants is a bit like naming your children. You do your best to make sure they won't get laughed at at school Claude Bottom or Wayne Kerr and then hope there doesn't come along a serial killer or reality show 'star' with the same name some time in the future.
The man who services my central heating boiler is called Bobby Ewing!
I think that's the nub of it B3. For everyone who loves a celeb there's going to be someone who doesn't. Or say you called your best home bred rose Lance Armstrong!
I've looked about and I think the heuchera I bought yesterday might be Lime Ruffles. I can live with that. Now I read that people (Tetley) are giving up on Heuchera because of the uncontrollable vine weevil attacks. All that Cherry Cola business for nothing!
Is it wrong to be put off buying a plant because it's called something ridiculous? I'm trying to get past the fact that there is a really nice Heuchera I've admired called Cherry Cola.....nope!!! Can't get past it!
I'm regurgitating this thread because I was admiring a beautiful geum yesterday called Geumborisii. Couldn't do it!!! Could not buy it. What a shame! Am I the only one?
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I've already decreed on Lime Marmalade! Oh my. My little 9cm pot has suddenly become a dictatorship!
HaHa good one Pansyface!
Good point well made Philippa!
I suppose naming plants is a bit like naming your children. You do your best to make sure they won't get laughed at at school Claude Bottom or Wayne Kerr and then hope there doesn't come along a serial killer or reality show 'star' with the same name some time in the future.
The man who services my central heating boiler is called Bobby Ewing!
I think that's the nub of it B3. For everyone who loves a celeb there's going to be someone who doesn't. Or say you called your best home bred rose Lance Armstrong!
I think his wife's name is Gladys!!!
Funny thing is he doesn't even know who the other one is!
Once heard of someone called Luke Warmbath.
PP never lies!
I've looked about and I think the heuchera I bought yesterday might be Lime Ruffles. I can live with that. Now I read that people (Tetley) are giving up on Heuchera because of the uncontrollable vine weevil attacks. All that Cherry Cola business for nothing!
pp I too have given up on heuchera because of vine weevil.
Pansyface, re RR, I seem to remember being told that Vauxhall Novas didn't sell in Spain because Nova mean lady of the night.
My Brother worked for IBM and they went to visit the american computer company Wang Laboitories.
They had a talk from a guy sang the praises of their best model
" We call it the Wang King".
cue much tittering from the Brits.
I'm regurgitating this thread because I was admiring a beautiful geum yesterday called Geum borisii. Couldn't do it!!! Could not buy it. What a shame! Am I the only one?