Gardening Quiz

1. What is made from Jersey kale?
   
2. What do Sarrencenia, Drosera and Darlingtonia have in common?
3. Which Surrey estate was presented to the RHS in 1903?
4. Which London hotel shares its name with a popular hardy vegetable?
5. Which plant genus bears the same name as a stringed instrument?
6. From which country does the Lupin originate?
7. What name links a British truck/lorry maker and a conifer?
8. Lily beetles are destructive pests. What colour are they?
9. Who designed the palm house at Kew Gardens?
10. What type of tree is famous for growing to 4000 years old?
11. The hard white wood of Euonymus Europaeus was once used to make an essential item in the wool industry from which it gained its common name. What is it?
12. Is Old English Lavender truly English?
13. The Victorians introduced a tall growing invasive weed with a potentially irritant sap as a garden plant. It escaped into hedgerows and became a pest. What is it?
14. "Oh Adam was a gardener and God who made him sees, that half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees."  Who wrote this poem?
15. What flower could be said to have a good memory?

 
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