Here you can click on the name and hear it pronounced:

http://www.taunton.com/finegardening/pages/spg017.asp

Non-aural sites:

http://www.rainyside.com/resources/reference/PronunciationGuideQRS.html

shoot, bob, you tempting me? now I really have to get that sound card/audio driver fixed!

has anyone found a site where one can hear bird calls to help ID them?

stan
nashville, tn
zone6b

Thank you so much! I'm sending those sites to everyone that I know that is interested in gardeing.

has anyone found a site where one can hear bird calls to help ID them?
stan

Yes...Hi Stan, I have given you a link below. At this site you can search for the bird of your choice, get it's description and listen to its call.
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/

~ Jilly ~
Denver Colorado
Zone 5

thanks, jilly! that's awesome. I appreciate it. I'll save it for when my sound card is fixed.

stan
nashville, tn
zone6b

Thanks for the sites. I need all the help I can get. I am terrible with all the scientific names. Give me the good old common name anyday.

Dianne
Alabama
Zone 8

Great sites, Bob.......thanks!!

Patrick
Brug Moderator
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place

Bob - Thanks - it really helps to hear them to remember them

Jilly - Oh that wonderful sound - Thanks so much...

Carol
Milford, CT
Zone 6

Bob- Thanks for that site - it really helps to hear it- my latin is nonexistent...
Jilly - Loved hearing the sounds of the rubythroat - it helps to keep them near when they are so far away from me! Thank goodness for this forum - its keeping me relatively sane while waiting for the real thing to show up!



Carol
Milford Ct
Zone 6

hmm. I asked for a-ga-STAHK-y instead of a-ga-STACK-y at the new garden center and got a what? what? At least I didn't say a-ga-STASH.

Lisa
Central NJ/ z6b
Heat zone 5/6

Lisa,
I have learned that when I go to a new garden center and am not familiar where certain plants are to ask if they have any Hyssop. They seem to know Hyssop better than Agastache.



Penny
Niagara Falls, NY
USDA zone 6a/6b
Heat zone 4
Sunset zone 39

Thanks so much Bob. Many of the plants I had never heard of until I joined the forum. Lisa, I have been wondering which way to pronounce Agastache too!

Linda B
NE AL
USDA 7

Great idea thanks!

Sarah from merion station, Pennsylvania zone 6B

Penny, neither Agastache nor Hyssop would be understood here. These aren't plants we see very much. Additionally, our nurseries seem to employ clerks who really don't know much, if anything, about plants. So, it pays to educate yourself and to know what will be useful to you.

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Nancy L Newfield
Casa Colibri
Metairie, Louisiana USA
USDA Zone 9
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Agreed Nancy.

Dianne
Alabama
Zone 8