{"id":20157,"date":"2019-07-17T09:14:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T08:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20157"},"modified":"2019-07-16T09:28:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T08:28:45","slug":"my-plant-identification-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/my-plant-identification-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"My Plant Identification Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20158\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/sunday-bobby-012a-1024x863.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/sunday-bobby-012a-1024x863.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/sunday-bobby-012a-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/sunday-bobby-012a-768x648.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We can all suffer from forgetfulness or in my case ignorance. This flower looks a bit like an antirrhinum but somehow that doesn&#8217;t seem to fit.<\/p>\n<h3>Reasons for Poor Identification<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Failure to take due notice and collect all the available information when first encountering a plant.<\/li>\n<li>Rare or unusual species seldom or not previously seen, thus having no reference point.<\/li>\n<li>Poor botanical knowledge eg. number of petals, leave shape, growing conditions etc.<\/li>\n<li>Large number of newly bred hybrids or special varieties. These are often &#8216;dumped&#8217; on the market by suppliers to stimulate sales by introduction of new products.<\/li>\n<li>Not looking carefully and taking time to think about identification. Gardening should not be all about speed or so I keep telling myself.<\/li>\n<li>Able to guess the order, family, genus, species, hybrid, variety or common name but not all at the same time.<\/li>\n<li>Confusion created by the renaming or reclassification of a traditional plant into a new\u00c2\u00a0 genus such as Aster which became Symphyotrichum!<\/li>\n<li>You know what it is but not what variety or sub species.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13017\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Anthurium-green-Calpurnia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Anthurium-green-Calpurnia.jpg 448w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Anthurium-green-Calpurnia-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Anthurium-green-Calpurnia-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can all suffer from forgetfulness or in my case ignorance. This flower looks a bit like an antirrhinum but somehow that doesn&#8217;t seem to fit. Reasons for Poor Identification Failure to take due notice and collect all the available information when first encountering a plant. Rare or unusual species seldom or not previously seen, thus having no reference point. Poor botanical knowledge eg. number of petals, leave shape, growing conditions etc. Large number of newly bred hybrids or special&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/my-plant-identification-problems\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20157"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20162,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20157\/revisions\/20162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}