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My summer basil’s on its way.

October 2021

Thank you, florists A gorgeous glowing weed

Welcome to my site. Let me introduce myself. My name is Tigger. 89 years old and still gardening. This is me doing a quick check on the herbs before breakfast.

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The Occasional Garden Quiz

Answer in subsequent post

QQ1.

A ha ha is:

an implement used for tilling sweet potatoes
a horticultural expletive on discovery of a guilty caterpillar
a wall and ditch garden boundary in 18th C England

QQ2.

What Australian plant sustained King, the sole surviving member of the Burke and Wills expedition?

QQ3

What plant is depicted on the current Australian five dollar note?

QQ4

What parts of a plant are these?

(a) capers (b) saffron (c) popcorn (d) sago (e) cochineal (f) ginger

QQ5

“There’s a daisy; I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died”.

Who uttered these words?

QQ6

True or false?

(a) The jacaranda is a native of Australia

(b) Peanuts grow on trees

(c) Mint prefers moist soil

(d) A boronia flower has four petals

(e) Azaleas like lime

(f) The cannon ball tree is named after the Battle of Trafalgar

QQ7

Eight years of growing over 10,000 pea plants in an abbey garden led to significant scientific advances. Who was the experimenter?

QQ8

In whose garden did Peter Rabbit lose his coat?

QQ9

With what famous characters are these plants associated?

(a) the coolibah tree

(b) waterlilies

(c) spinach

(d) the dig tree

(e) pomegranates

(f) gladioli

(g) bulrushes

QQ10

Botanists describe the flowers as ‘fetid’. Growers say the flowers stink like a herd of dead elephants. Pollination is by blowflies. What is the plant’s name and distribution?

QQ11

With what famous gardens are the following people associated?

(a) Claude Monet

(b) Andre le Notre

(c) Vita Sackville-West

(d) Thomas Jefferson

(e) William Guilfoyle

The Occasional Links Puzzle

Find the one word which, placed after the first word and before the second word, changes them into two different words or names – often garden-oriented.

For example: Norfolk:apple

Answer: pine Norfolk pine: pineapple

Answers will be in subsequent posts.

LP 1.

silver:root

LP2.

kangaroo:paw

LP3

man:at

LP4

a:flower

LP5

pea:meg

LP6

car:ate

LP7

butter:board

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