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February 13, 2012
Managing a Menace: Japanese Beetles
I had a call this morning from a customer wanting to know what all the beetles were on her roses. “There are about 10 per blossom. They are eating the flowers and have eaten a lot of leaves already. They weren’t there the last time I looked! What do I do?”
You Say “To-MAY-Toe” and I Say “To-MA-Toe”
Almost 250 years ago Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus published a book named Species Plantarum ("The Species of Plants") and binomial nomenclature was born. This systematic approach to naming plants is still the universally recognized system used today. While many gardeners struggle with “Latin names” of plants, knowing a plant’s botanical name allows you to converse with gardeners all over the world.
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