Letter of the week
Tick, tock goes the flower clock
SADDENED by the fading face of my garden clock, set inside the greenhouse glass, I was inspired by your article ‘What’s the time, Mother Nature?’ (August 19) to scan and adapt the British wildflower clock to reface mine—now it truly tells garden time.
Anthony Kyrke-Smith, London
The writer of the letter of the week will win a bottle of Pol Roger Brut Réserve Champagne
Weeding out a problem
MAY I suggest the new) looks urgently at the long-standing dispute over plant names and classification? Since 1952, the society has sought the earliest legitimate name for plants and reviewed their biological classification. As early as 1956, Vita Sackville-West wrote in her column of the many complaints she had from readers who ‘resent the fact that the name of a plant should be so frequently changed’. She thought that ‘everything will be adjusted in time and our descendants will no longer have any cause for indignation’. More than 60 years later, the problem remains.
