Ina is our resident master gardener which means she actually got schooled in the art of cultivation, while the rest of us either learned through experience – or we fake it.
She creates beautiful gardens, but always refers to a plant by its latin or botanical name. I have no idea what she is saying.
Centaurea cineraria
I think she believes that if she repeats the name often enough, I will eventually catch on.
Physostegia virginiana
I just nod. Politely.
Asclepias tuberose
I have discovered that I am much more inspired to learn the latin names of dogs than flowers. Don’t ask me why. For example:
Lipidus smoochus
Minus dontouchus
Toobigus forlapus
Feelgoodus dontstopus
See what I mean? Much more memorable.
Meus happius
Gardens For Goldens 
Sweet, clever, funny, delightful!
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Wonderful humor today! Love it. Got a good laugh before bed!
Always good to go to bed happy! 🙂
This made me smile!
Well, then, that makes me smile!
This just started my day off wonderfully. Thank you for all the smiles and beautiful pictures of some of the dogs. Thank you!
Good to hear. Your day starts early!!
Thank you for the chuckle and beautiful photos. I attended a school where they taught Latin but never had any interest. Then a nice long break where no one spoke Latin to me until I became a Master Gardener and there we go again with the Latin names. But, one thing about being in that special mature age bracket you get to make some choices and I choose to just call plants by their common name. To be honest it isn’t a choice because I’m taking a stand it is because I just plain can’t remember the Latin names. BUT, my hat is tipped to your friend, Ina, and all of my gardening friends who can remember the Latin names. 🙂
I can barely remember their common names sometimes! Hats off to both you and Ina. 🙂
Thanks for the chuckles! Loved this!
Thanks for visiting and commenting! 🙂
I have not been trained as a MG, but the Latin names of plants and flowers came more easily to me than their “common” names, maybe because of all the Latin in my schooling from childhood on…funny how I pictured each of the plants you named…but I have to say that YOUR Latin is more creative and descriptive! Thank you for this, Ogee; what a lovely day’s beginning!
I was deprived of the latin-in-school experience. It would probably have helped me later. Who knew?
I know I would get much better marks at your kind of Latin than what I studied in school.
We could have gone to summer school make up classes together!
Those Latin dog names are fabulous! So cute, thanks for the laugh! But my Snoringus Sleepydoginus didn’t even wake up when I laughed at it just now 🙂
Ahhh, yes. I am familiar with that one!
“Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”
The roots of the word have been defined as follows: super- “above”, cali- “beauty”, fragilistic- “delicate”, expiali- “to atone”, and docious- “educable”, with the sum of these parts signifying roughly “Atoning for educability through delicate beauty.”
It is defined as “something to say when you have nothing to say”.
Thank you — that word covers all of the above.
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“Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”
The roots of the word have been defined as follows: super- “above”, cali- “beauty”, fragilistic- “delicate”, expiali- “to atone”, and docious- “educable”, with the sum of these parts signifying roughly “Atoning for educability through delicate beauty.”
It is defined as “something to say when you have nothing to say”.
Thank you. We just love this one and words cannot describe this blog.
Carol and Maggie
This post represents pure joy – no matter what words you use.
Ahhh…. 🙂
So clever . . . but maybe they shouldn’t let you choose the names for the Homeward Bound rescues. They might end up with some sort of “complexus.” 😉
Very funny! 🙂
Veni, vidi, vonderfullus!
Ah Ha! I was hoping this would make you smile! 🙂
I just want to commend Ina on the AMAZING job she’s done with the garden. Her knowledge, vision, hard work, and cheerful personality have been a gift to us all. Thanks, Ina!!
Just saw this and loved it. I totally agree that “Dog Latin” is much easier and much more memorable.