{"id":11683,"date":"2011-07-06T15:13:46","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T19:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=11683"},"modified":"2011-07-06T15:13:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T19:13:46","slug":"on-the-naming-of-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2011\/07\/behind-the-scenes-2\/on-the-naming-of-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Naming of Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
Ann Rafalko is Director of Online Content.<\/em><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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This peony is named 'Kevin'. Not that far off from a moss named 'Mark'.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have been editing a lot of articles for nybg.org<\/a> recently that involve long lists of the names of the many hybrids and cultivars we keep on Garden grounds. Anyone who has ever edited a long list in HTML can tell you that it is one of those tasks where it really is okay to let the mind wander a little. It has given me a lot of time to daydream about what kind of plant I would like to have named after me, if, you know, someday I just happen to meet the right hybridizer …. And I know I’m not alone in thinking about this, because when I posed the question yesterday on Twitter, “What would you most like to have named after you? A rose? A daylily? A hosta? Tell us!<\/a>” the responses came fast and furious.<\/p>\n

NYC_Living<\/a> would “love to have a Tree named after me…a very large strong tall with deep green leaves and a long life!<\/a>”<\/p>\n

jmarkowski0<\/a> wants “an ornamental grass that thrives in clay and laughs at the nearby deer<\/a>” named after him. (If you can breed that, we’ll help you lobby for the name!)<\/p>\n

thinkingstomach<\/a> would do with “a fruit tree, some kind of crazy-good nectarine<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

electrobloom<\/a> wants “a moss! mark the moss has got a nice ring to it!<\/a>” (It does, actually.)<\/p>\n

graceyhearts<\/a> is a girl who knows what she wants, and it’s “a white lily<\/a>, like this one<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

garrickdetroit<\/a> stays true to his urbanist roots and hopes that “any of the cityfied volunteer trees that sprout on (or in) poorly maintained buildings!<\/a>” could be named for him.<\/p>\n

ashleywillhite<\/a> is hoping for the ‘Ashley Willhite’ hyacinth so that she can be planted in “a garden full of tulips of every color imaginable!<\/a>” (Sounds divine!)<\/p>\n

michele_owens<\/a> goes subterranean with her wish to give her name to a “New parsnip variety, for sure.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

BloominChick<\/a> shows her wild side in dreaming of “Something hardy, strong & beautiful. A tiger\/wild Lily? (Those striking orange ones).”<\/p>\n

There were also votes for a hosta<\/a>, an orchid<\/a>, a waterlily<\/a>, and a butterfly<\/a> (not technically a plant, but since so many plants can’t live without flowers, we’ll allow it).<\/p>\n

And finally agardendiary<\/a>, RedneckRosarian<\/a>, AvasFlowers<\/a>, ambianceflorals<\/a>, and quite honestly, your blog editor, would all like to have a rose named after us. Rosa rafalko<\/em> has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n

So now it’s your turn, blog friends. Tell us: If you could have any new plant cultivar or hybrid named after you, what would it be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tell us: If you could have any new plant cultivar or hybrid named after you, what would it be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1282],"tags":[1580,1562,1579,1463,1578,148,60,4648,1044],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-32r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11683"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11692,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11683\/revisions\/11692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}