More plants of love

Following on yesterday’s posting on agapanthus (roughly ‘flower of love’), here are a few more plants of love. Five plants that I grew back in Columbus. First, two genuses of plants with the Greek ‘love’ root phil- in their scientific names: Philodendron and Philadelphus. From OED3 (June 2011) on philodendron: [etymology] < scientific Latin Philodendron, genus … Continue reading More plants of love