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1. Which plants come in the following varieties?
a. Johnson's Blue, Mrs Kendall Clark, Ann Folkard
b. Moerheim Beauty, Butterpat, Waltraut
c. Sour grapes, Garnet, Port Wine

2. What is the latin name for these plants?
a. Ivy
b. Holly
c. Mistletoe

3. What is:
a. Miss Jessopps Upright
b. Miss Wilmott's Ghost
c. Mrs Marrows plums

4. Who, in plant terms a
a. the Bishop of Llandaff?
b. Parkdirektor Riggers?
c. Clive Greaves?

5. How will these plants appear on your xmas table?
a. pastinaca sativa
b. brassica oleracea gemmifera
c. vaccinium oxyoccos

6. Who desgined the gardens at:
a. Iford Manor
b. Myddelton House
c. Hidcote Manor

7. Where would you see:
a. a water staircase and a fountain 298ft high?
b. a judge's wig and a jub of moroccan ale in topiary?
c. an indian bridge, complete with statues of Brahman bulls?

8. Which gardens are teh homes of the following families?
a. the De L'Isles
b. the Comptons
c. the Sitwells

9. In which county would you be if you visited Wollerton Old Hall,
Hawkstone Park and Hodnet Hall?

10. Which:
a. garden int he Cotswold gives its name to a rampant rose?
b. Welsh border castle gives its name to an aromatic silver leaved
shrub?
c. garden in Somerset gives its name in blood to an astrantia?

11. Which garden writers lived at:
a. Munstead Wood?
b. East Lambrood Manor?
c. Four Hedges?

12. What was the real first name of:
a. Capability Brown
b. Vita Sackville West
c. Cherry Ingram

13 Which artists had gardens at:
a. The Red House, Kent
b. Hoglands Hertfordshire
c. Eagle's Nest, Cornwall

14. Whist Rose wrote:
a. The Towers of Trebizond?
b. Music and Silence (and I recommend this book very much indeed ;o)
c. contributions for Milady's Boudoir in the Bertie Wooster stories?

15. Which Basil:
a. wrote a poem called Briggflatts
b. designed Coventry cathedral
c. owned a hotel in Torquay

16. In which books would you find the follwoing gardens:
a. Robin Hill
b. Gardencourt
c.Starlings

17. What is the date of these books
a. John Gerards Herball
b. Philip Miller's Gardeners Dictionary
c. William Robinson's The English Flower Garden

18. Who wrote the following children's books?
a. The secret garden
b. A child's garden of verses
c. Toms Midnight Garden

19. Who wrote the books on which these films were based?
a. The constant gardener
b. The spanish gardener
c. The chalk garden

20. Who are the authors of the books in which the following extracts
occur?
a. Stooping down to the daisies, she whispered 'if you don't hold your
tongues I'll pick you!'. There was silence for a moment and several of
the pink daisies turned white.
b. We have in fact all the comfort of a Kitchen Garden without the
constant eyesore of its formalities.
c. There was a nice little splash of garden, containing a bush, a
tree, a couple of flower beds and a lily pond with a statue of a nude
child with a bit of a tummy on him.

Good luck!

On 2 Jan, 00:09, wrote:
Found this quiz really fun. I thought I'll share it here .... and
resist the surfing if you can! Enjoy.

Nobody having a go then?!

On Jan 5, 4:28*pm, wrote:
On 2 Jan, 00:09, wrote:

Found this quiz really fun. I thought I'll share it here .... and
resist the surfing if you can! Enjoy.

Nobody having a go then?!

I would but I would probably get nil out of nil.