Making Those Pesky Plant Names Work For You
With Shirlie Pinkham
Curator, Tanglewood Gardens
Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Time: 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. Eastern via Zoom
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About this Presentation:
Do you consider those scientific plant names pesky? Does it seem like people who use them are just out to impress? Do you wonder why we even need them? Join me to cover why we should bother with scientific names, how the names came about, the naming system, who’s got a superpower for handling them, pronunciation, and how to get their meaning and use them. I'll share examples along the way.
The presentation will be recorded for
members to view later in our Video Library.
About Our Speaker:
Shirlie Pinkham grew up in Maryland, with no childhood garden successes. She typed her way through college, then worked as a personnel specialist, an international trade analyst and, for over 20 years, a Foreign Service officer specializing in developing economies and international finance. She also taught English as a second language to students from pre-K through middle school for 8 years. Shirlie has studied, worked and lived in 11 foreign countries, and gardened in none of them. In the past she spoke 8 languages, and remains fairly fluent in English.
Shirlie tended a shade garden in Maryland for 17 years, then moved to Winston Salem and got sun. A master gardener since 2018, Shirlie has curated the shade garden at Tanglewood, now co-curates the perennial garden there, and has co-managed several spring plant sales at Tanglewood. She is excessively proud of her veggie beds.
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