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I'm Sarah, 22 and currently studying Floristry.
I'm doing a National Certificate Level 2 and would love some help with learning Common and Latin Names as everything else I am picking up rather quickly.
Any help would be recieved most humbly.
See you all around on the boards...
xx Sarah xx

hi and welcome.

Hi Sarah,
welcome to the site - am sure you'll get loads of help here.

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Hi Sarah from another Sarah

Potty xx

Hi Sarah what everyone else has said

hello and welcome you will love this board!!

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Hi There Sarah, Look forward to chatting to you. Don't just post in the student section, please chat away about anything you are interested in. All the best.

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Rainbow

Quote of the day : To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Amos Bronson Alcott

hiya welcome to the site! I love learning new names of flowers, the best way to learn is to actually see the flowers regularly so shop experience is essential, pop into your local florists and ask them any varieties you don't know(also a good way of breaking the ice with them for possible future employment!), the college I went to did a flower and plant test of about 10-20 different flowers each fortnight to learn. The names will just sink in eventually the more you use them and see them. Keep asking questions and try to make associations with the different flowers for example I always remember the grand prix rose as the first rose I used in a competition piece I did at sfe. In one of the flower tests at college we had a eucharist lily and it stumped us all apart from 2 girls who worked in a shop, everyone else put that it was an orchid but I'll always remember that test in college when I see one now!! Good luck!

I don't know if this is any use but I thought it was interesting

http://www.earthlypursuits.com/FlwrsPer/FlwrSent.htm

We learned the Latin names too doing the city and guilds, but to be honest I only really come across the use of them when flower arrangers come into the shop. They tend to use the Latin names all of the time. I find my suppliers usually use the common names.
The best are the Dutch. I asked one Dutch man for Eryngium, he looked blankly at me. Ok I thought, if he sounds like the Swedish chief off the Muppet show to me then I probably sound like something off a Beatle cartoon to him. Very slowly I said "sea holly" he said, "no we only get holly at Christmas time" hmmmmmmmm I left it. Next time he called I saw some on his lorry. "Ah, you have Eryngium, that's what I wanted last week" I said. "Oh, Thistle!" yes you can have that!
All that studying and Thistle would have done!

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Rainbow

Quote of the day : To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Amos Bronson Alcott