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    Garden Quiz
    (Only slightly more serious)
     
    If you've been reading much on the Garden Humour Website, your knowledge of plants, landscaping, propagation, pruning, weeding, Latin, history, geography, metric conversion, tons (tonnes) of irrelevant garden trivia and bad puns will surely have expanded phenomenally — assuming you have a much better memory than I have. Every spring I have to look up the names of the plants in my garden because I always forget them over the winter. I dare say there are one or two others with the same problem, so here's another little quiz.

    1. What did Baron Walter von St. Paul discover one day in 1892 while hiking through the mountains of northern Tanzania (then Tanganyika)? 

    Calla lily 
    Agapanthus
    African violet
    That you shouldn't poke sleeping lions with a walking stick

    2. What is girdling?

    The wrapping of shrubs for winter protection
    How an aphid chews its way around the stem of a plant
    Something best forgotten
    Choking of a branch by a wire or other material 

    3. What is humus? 

    Well rotted manure
    A Parking lot full of four-wheeled environmental disasters
    Pureed chickpeas
    No one is surel

    4. What is the common name for pelargonium?

    Livingstone daisy
    Geranium
    Chrysanthemum
    Souvenir shop at the Vatican

    5. An indeterminate tomato plant . . . 

    Will grow in any type of soil
    Is a result of cross pollination
    Grows, flowers, and sets fruit over the entire growing season
    Can't be relied upon to produce fruit

    6. Poinsettias prefer a location that is . . . 

    Bright and sunny with temperatures around 15C (60F)
    The focus of attention (top of TV)
    Partly sunny with a temperature around 21C (70F)
    Bright, sunny, and warm

    7. What property does corn gluten possess?

    It's believed to inhibit the germination of crab grass seeds
    It is a source of potassium
    When added to cattle feed, it keeps cows regular
    When sprayed on corn it deters pests 

    8. Where would be the best place to plant Aegopodium podagaria (goutweed)?

    In a rock garden
    Where nothing else will grow 
    Along the border of a flowerbed
    On another planet

    9. Zucchini originated . . . 

    In ancient Mexico
    In southern Italy
    Along the Euphrates river
    Alice Springs

    10. What is Duck's Foot?

    A term for the measurement of the surface area of a pond 
    A rubber boot with a hole in it 
    An aquatic plant
    A variety of Coleus

    11. Clematis should be pruned .  .  . 

    Anytime it doesn't bloom
    Immediately after blooming
    Never
    Only if you've studied the clematis pruning rules

    12. What is a clair-voyée?

    A plant with open foliage
    An opening in a wall to provide a garden view 
    Greenhouse glass cleaner
    A plant that grows through the fence from your neighbour’s garden

    13. Where would you find farina?

    In rose dust
    In a bag of fertilizer
    On the leaves and flowers of a primrose
    On your cornflakes 

    14. What is pricking out?

    Aerating the lawn with the old man's golf shoes
    Using a sharp stick to dispatch slugs
    Separating seedlings for transplanting 
    Loosening compacted soil in flowerbeds

    15. What is an ericaceous plant?

    A plant that favours an alkaline soil
    A plant best suited for containers
    A plant that survives on minimum amounts of moisture
    A plant that grows best in acidic soil 

    16. Who is David Austin?

    A famous rose grower
    An early explorer of Texas 
    A clematis breeder 
    A well known TV gardener 

    17. What is air-layering?

    How frost pockets form in low areas of the garden
    A flower drying technique
    A means of propagation
    What happens when a full wash line of laundry blows into the flowerbed

    18.How does the nutrient potassium help plants?

    Increases the size and number of blooms
    Helps them resist disease
    Improves the flavour of vegetables
    Encourages root growth

    19.What is a biennial plant?

    One that flowers twice a year
    One that flowers every second year
    One that completes its life cycle in two seasons
    One that is sold in a two for one sale

    20. What is leaf mold?

    Brown crumbly compost consisting of decomposed leaves
    Reddish brown splotches on dead hollyhock leaves
    Black spots on maple leaves
    Grey powdery stuff found on honeysuckle leaves

     Regardless of your results, remember, whenever you’re in your garden and you experience that perfect bubble of satisfaction that comes from peace, energy, and joy, you’ll know that you’re a gifted gardener and will remain so for as long as you enjoy it.
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