Garden Quiz

1. Sweet potato is a root vegetable grown in the tropics. Is it related to potatoes grown in our gardens?
2. What part of the clove plant yields the spice? Is it the nut, berry or flower bud?
3. Which part of the caper plant are gathered for pickling ... roots, flower buds or fruit?
4. The parasitic plant that bears the largest known flowers (up to 3 feet in diameter) is named after a former British Governor of Sumatra who also gave his name to a hotel in Singapore. Who is he?
5. In Norse mythology, Yggdrasil was the name of the tree of the Universe which bound together heaven, earth and hell. Name the tree.
6. The lotus flower is considered sacred in many parts of the East. What is lotus flower?
7. Plants can be great mimics. What do lithos try and look like to avoid being eaten by hungry and thirsty animals in the desert?
8. What is the link between something that raises a car off the ground when changing a tyre and a fruit common in Asia but now available in this country?
9. What is an Irishman's cutting?
10. What is the largest seed in the world?
11. Where are you likely to see 'Big Bo' in your garden?
12. In what year did John London publish the first gardener's magazine?
13. Cotinus is also known as the smoke bush. Why?
14. What colour are kiwana fruits and which part of the fruit do you eat?
15. What was voted the nation's favourite wild flower in a countryside survey?
16. The word 'albums' in a plant suggests white flowers, 'rubens' ...red. What does 'vindiflora'  indicate?
17. What is the common name is isatis tinctoria, a dye yielding plant used by ancient Britons to stain their bodies?
18. What is the common name for the plant ipomoea?
19. They can be sweet or sour, culinary or dessert, yellow, orange, red or purple. You can have a second bite of them too. What are they?
    
20. Who is Harry's Evergreen Partner?
    

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