Dear Fellow Waysiders:
Oh dear — does this mean we’re only on the C’s??? Heaven help us when they get to Salvia . . . but by that time I will have gone to my garden in the sky, where all my plants have lovely old-fashioned names (I don’t like to call them "common" names) like Kiss-Me-Over-the-Garden-Gate and Pigsqueak, and anything that looks like a daisy is called a daisy.
I hope my fellow Master Gardeners never read this, but there are times when I simply get weary with botanical nomenclature. Some days I feel that if I have to look up one more cultivar to verify whether it takes a trademark symbol or a registration mark . . . Now, plant patents I don’t mind looking up. Anyone enterprising enough to go through the patent process deserves to have it mentioned every single time the plant is referred to. And I’m sure there’s an equally arduous process for trademarking and registering, but they do cause confusion in our catalogs and on the website.
It must be Friday!
Sincerely,
Kay