What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast.

Today we're going to talk about something a little basic, a little simple,

but if you're a new gardener, you're new to plants in general,

this is going to be hopefully helpful for you.

And this is what is on a plant label and how do you properly read it.

And I'm talking about this because when you buy a plant for the first time you're going to see a bunch of stuff in the back

that might not make the most sense to you.

So let's go ahead and talk about it. The first thing we're going to talk about, of course,

are the naming conventions for plants. So you hear or you read things like Tagittis erecta, Rudecia Fulgita Var Sullivani,

a lot of stuff that is a little confusing, it's in Latin, and you might get confused by what it all means.

So plants have a common name and a scientific name.

Most people are going to refer to things by their common name.

Unless you're a botanist or an agronomist or someone who's

oddly into gardening like me you're going to refer to things by their common name.

For example there's the Boston Fern I've done an episode on the

Boston Fern before, but the problem with common names is that they can also be

referred to by what's common in your area. So a Boston Fernern can be called a sword fern, a fishbone

fern, even a tuber, ladder fern. And if you're in Hawaii, it would be called something like

Kupu, Kupu. And so that's where scientific names come in that's why

scientific names exist they are universal and they are unique to every plant on earth

they're always in Latin and they are not changed ever unless

unless agreed upon by an international scientific agreement. So no matter

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