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Originally posted by VoodooChile
that the ability to identify plants off the cuff for potential clients is a great confidence booster for you and them. Nevertheless, I think it is a grossly overrated skill depending on what kind of landscape business you are in (more useful for maintenance than design/build). I would much prefer that I could bid better than I i.d. Oaks. 
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Voodoo has said something that I agree with 100%. Once you get past the couple of hundred major plants that we use on a daily basis it is more important to know how to identify them, if you need to, than remembering what the are. I am probably the worse for remembering plant names but I know how to find out what it is in a big hurry. Also these days new cultivars are coming in and out of fashion so quickly that there is no way to keep up with it. Once you learn how to use plant keys you will identify plants quite easily. Also using google with the plants identifying features works quite well.
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