Happy Sunday to all! Heres Fun Gardening Quiz for you. No cheating! :) Each question has three possible answers, but only one is correct. Scroll to the bottom for the answers. Happy thinking! 1. The cranberry, so popular in a sauce to go with the Christmas turkey, is known botanically as what? a) Needlium b) Injectium c) Vaccinium 2. What would a gardener do with a dibber or dibble? a) Scrape mud off spades and trowels b) Make holes in compost from transplanting seedlings c) Grade soil particles according to size 3. What is meant by a resistant vegetable variety? a) A variety that is resistant to being attacked by pests or diseases b) A variety that is not resistant to being attacked by pests and diseases c) A variety that doesnt like being moved 4. The Royal Horticultural Society runs a large garden at Rosemoor. Which county is it in? a) Kent b) Devon c) Warwickshire 5. What general term is given to the trees and shrubs whose leaves fall in autumn? a) Deciduous b) Evergreen c) Ambidextrous 6. What is the popular name for the flowering house plant Impatiens walleriana? a) Marguerite b) Black-eyed Susan c) Busy Lizzie 7. What is the name given to the technique of clipping trees and hedges into ornamental shapes? a) Topiary b) Bonsai c) Renewal pruning 8. Why do gardeners practice crop rotation? a) To grow bigger vegetables b) To make the garden appear organised and efficient c) To help prevent a build up of pests and diseases in the soil 9. Which part of a tree can be used to make cork? a) The bark b) Root tissue c) Pulped seeds 10. The love apple is the original name for what? a) Potato b) Tomato c) Quince 11. How can you keep an area of soil weed-free, without digging? a) Cut the tops of the weeds off with scissors, to prevent them from seeding b) Cover the soil with a light-excluding mulch or mulch-fabric c) Ignore the weeds and they will eventually go away 12. When a gardener makes a drill what is he/she making? a) A machine to make holes in the ground b) A shallow trench in which to sow seeds c) A loud noise to scare away birds 13. A kumquat is a small Japanese variety of what sort of fruit? a) Citrus b) Plum c) Pineapple 14. Harry Wheatcroft was a renowned breeder of which type of plant? a) Fuchsias b) Begonias c) Roses 15. Name the evergreen hedging conifer that has created many a neighbourly dispute? a) The British Leyland cedar b) The Leyland cypress c) The Lakeland cupressus 16. What is the Latin name for the Rowan Tree? a) Sorbus b) Malus c) Prunus 17. On what would you use the spray containing the chemical Glyphosate? a) Persistent weeds b) Greenfly, blackfly and whitefly c) Black spot of roses 18. What is the popular name for the Antirrhinum? a) Snake-bark maple b) Snapdragon c) Dogs tooth violet 19. Who, or what, is Müller-Thurgau? a) A botanist from Victorian Bavaria b) A variety of grape c) A summer pudding using raspberries and yoghurt 20. In garden design terms, what is a Ha-Ha? a) A ditch forming a boundary but not obscuring a view b) An area of the garden using mirrors or other illusions c) An arbour or other secluded seating area 21. Araucaria araucana is better known as what? a) Tree of Heaven b) Dragon tree c) Monkey puzzle tree 22. Iceberg is NOT a type of what? a) White arum b) Lettuce c) Rose 23. Camellias belong to which plant family? a) Heather b) Iris c) Apple 24. Monty Don stood down as the main presenter of TVs Gardeners World this year. Who replaced him? a) Barney Tuckland b) Toby Buckland c) Bob Tarland 25. What is a cloche? a) A cover to protect plants b) A type of fruit c) A way of digging 26. Jasper Carrott could be linked to which of these vegetable varieties? a) Chantenay Red Cored b) Webbs Wonder c) Gardeners Delight 27. What is the Latin name of the yellow winter jasmine? a) Jasminum nakediflorum b) Jasminum nudiflorum c) Jasminum bareiiflorum 28. The traditional Christmas tree – Picea abies – is what type of conifer? a) Fir b) Pine c) Spruce 29. Why would you cover carrots with horticultural fleece? a) To keep them warm in winter b) To stop them being attacked by carrot root fly c) To hide them from view 30. And finally, which of these is an anagram of Happy Christmas from all at Priory Farm!? a) Hmm! Pay crop or clamp fair shortfall arm! b) Tipsy army pro champ alarms Flora Firth! c) Fair pompoms shortfall. Charity arm pry! Answers: 1. c) Vaccinium 2. b) make holes in compost from transplanting seedlings 3. a) a variety that is resistant to being attacked by pests or diseases 4. b) Devon 5. a) deciduous 6. c) Busy Lizzie 7. a) topiary 8. c) to help prevent a build up of pests and diseases in the soil 9. a) the bark 10. b) tomato 11. b) cover the soil with a light-excluding mulch or mulch-fabric 12. b) a shallow trench in which to sow seeds 13. a) citrus 14. c) roses 15. b) the Leyland cypress 16. a) Sorbus 17. a) persistent weeds 18. b) snapdragon 19. b) a variety of grape 20. a) a ditch forming a boundary but not obscuring a view 21. c) Monkey puzzle tree 22. a) white arum 23. a) heather 24. b) Toby Buckland 25. a) a cover to protect plants 26. a) Chantenay Red Cored 27. b) Jasminum nudiflorum 28. c) spruce 29. b) to stop them being attacked by carrot root fly 30. b) Tipsy army pro champ alarms Flora Firth!
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 09:14:55 +0000
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