A Gardener’s Miscellany: peace is the theme for our trivia and puzzles
We look at plants with names related to peace
THE International Day of Peace is held each year on 21 September. Started in 1981 by the United Nations, it provides a shared date for all humanity to commit to peace, and to help build a ‘culture of peace’. Whether it succeeds in promoting world harmony is, I suppose, debatable, but it gives us the ideal opportunity to look at the connections between plants, gardening and ‘peace’!
There aren’t many garden plants that have three consecutive ‘o’s in their name, but Echinacea Mooodz Peace has. Perennial echinaceas are not easy for nurseries to propagate, but one Dutch grower has solved this with micropropagation (tissue culture and test tubes). It calls the strain Mooodz, and the variety Peace has flowers of a lovely ‘peaceful’ shade of cream.