Your Plant Username

Just curious..... if you had to choose a new username that was a plant, what would it be, and why? I would choose Larkspur. I like birds, the colour blue, and I can be a bit spikey at time (I'm sure my husband would confirm this). Also... too much of me can make you feel very unwell

 

@Irmemac Great thread idea
Hmmm I'll have to give that question some thought
Be back soon

 

Have liked your name choice BUT only part of it
PS: by the way don't agree with the above... AT ALL ...AT ALL... AT ALL
No way Hosea!!! ... your far too luvverly

 

Possibly sea holly, Eryngium. A bit spikey and useless, and can be slow to establish, but it sticks around, and is a bluey-purple colour, and also loves the seaside!

 

Some of us already have one!!

 

Like you @toppington sea holly is not useless at all, but a lovely addition to the environment. How are you allotment plans going?

 

That's because you are extra smart .

Having googled strongylodons, what qualities would you see as having in common, apart from being breathtakingly beautiful...! Full disclosure here: I thought a strongylodon was some kind of dinosaur

 

Sadly not well! I have caught the flu and the weather is dire so haven't made it up there since I got it yet (end of last week). Hopefully soon though!

Got some garlic in small pots ready to go in whenever I go up there! Need to start planning and working out how much space things take up!

 

Ooh-er, how to identify with just one plant? I don't think I can manage that so will just have to go for one that I love, and that also has a nice-sounding name. Vinca: that's a periwinkle, but Periwinkle sounds a little quaint as a user name.

Or I have a Victorian gardening book which has some lovely lists of very glamorously and euphoniously named varieties of roses, dahlias, fuchsias etc. One of those would be fun!

 

Is anyone going to pick MaresTail ?

 

@Clare G, vinca is a lovely plant, and the name suggests strength. However, I definitely think one of the names in your Victorian gardening book would be perfect for you. Something elegant, understated and unique. And of course Ken would need to have a name too....!

 

Hope someone picks stinkhorn, corpse flower or viper's bugloss!

 

Fairly obvious, Metasequoia glyptostroboides.
It's so easy to remember.

Or maybe Ash.

 

Well a Fern obviously!