A lily by any other name
I know – garden writers hump to develop us about the proper use of botanic Latin , but there is a real purpose for this often unmanageable and elitist sounding manner utter about plant , especially when it comes to lilies . Not unlike the recording label ‘ daisy ’ , ‘ lily ’ often clumps together many plant which are not even remotely related , simply because hoi polloi have associated them ‘ genuine ’ lilies ....