Mostly, the flowers I know are Korean (in which case if I know their names it's their Korean names), which does me no good here in a completely different climate.

I don't know if I know anything about Korean flowers, so I'm sill impressed.

I know a lot more trees by sight than I know by name, I'm discovering. "Oh, look, it's another one of those . . . small clustered white blossoms with tiny green leaves on a lot of twigs of smooth silvery bark, okay."