Doggone Plants
Doggone Plants
CAROL SHIRK
CERTIFIED MASTER GARDENER
As a follow-up on a recent article, plants named after dogs is the topic for today. Botanists must be cat lovers because they lack creativity in naming plants after our canine friends. Some of the plants have quite unpleasant characteristics, making them unsuitable for the home gardener. Hound’s tongue (Cynoglossum officinale), mad-dog