Boy, am I red-faced. All these years I’ve been pronouncing clematis, the popular purple-flowered vine, as klem-MATT-us, when the preferred way nationally is KLEM-uh-tiss, with strong stress on the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... You say klem-AT-is. I say KLEM-a-tis. Some say Latin is a dead language. But in the realm of horticulture, it’s not just alive, but kicking. Taxonomy, the ...

Botanical names can be a pain. They can get stuck like broccoli in the mouth of a 6-year-old who hates vegetables. All gardeners — beginners to advanced — blush and sputter when trying to pronounce ...

Maybe it’s just me, but it seems to me that Texans pronounce words differently than many others. When I look at an unfamiliar word, I pronounce it, at least in my mind, as it appears, syllable by ...

Latin might seem like an obscure, inscrutable language for naming plants. But it can open up the botanical world in ways you can’t imagine. By Margaret Roach The plants are trying to tell us something ...