Kevin Snelgrove - The Gardening Quiz Book

Title Page THE GARDENING QUIZ BOOK Compiled By Kevin Snelgrove Publisher Information First published as an ebook in 2012 by Apex Publishing Ltd PO Box 7086, Clacton on Sea, Essex, CO15 5WN, England www.apexpublishing.co.uk Digital edition converted and Distributed in 2012 by Andrews UK Limited www.andrewsuk.com Copyright 2012 by Kevin Snelgrove The author has asserted his moral rights All rights reserved. This book is sold subject to the condition, that no part of this book is to be reproduced, in any shape or form. Or by way of trade, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition, including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser, without prior permission of the copyright holder. Questions 1.What colour are the cones of the Korean Fir conifer? 2.In what part of London are the Royal Botanic Gardens situated? 3.What two areas of Great Britain are the worst affected for Black Spot on rose bushes? 4.During what three months of the year does Polyanthus flower? 5.What percentage of bedding plant sales is planted in hanging baskets? 6.Savoy is a type of which vegetable? 7.What county is Westonbirt Arboretum situated? 8.The Heligan Estate including the lost gardens of Heligan was bought by which family in the sixteenth century? 9.In what year was the Horticultural Society formed, which later became the Royal Horticultural Society in 1861? 10.What nut was first grown in Persia? 11.Who wrote the 1962 book The Education of a Gardener? 12.What gardener advocated planting a mixture of trees and shrubs, perennials and bulbs and had his ideas published in The Wild Garden in 1870? 13.Name the two types of pruning? 14.What European country do sprouts originate from? 15.How many petals does the hybrid tea rose National Trust crimson have when in bloom? 16.In what year was the shrub rose Fountain crimson introduced? 17.In what month of the year do you plant Tuberous Begonia? 18.What salad vegetable is 96% water? 19.Which country does this proverb come from He who plants a garden plants happiness China, Germany or Greece? 20.True or false: The lettuce is a member of the daisy family? 21.In what month of the year do you plant the main crop potato? 22.How old is the Oak tree when it produces its first acorn? 23.What was the first vegetable to be grown in space in 1995? 24.The BBCs Gardeners World was first aired in 1968 but who was the presenter? 25.Alliumphobia is a fear of what bulb? 26.What garden product was the Telford family famous for first producing in 1775? 27.What European country did the garden gnome originally come from? 28.What famous female garden expert was in the BBCs Ground Force team? 29.Who was the flower Fuchsia named after? 30.What plant did Charles Darwin describe as the most wonderful in the world? 31.The Heritiere tree is also known as what other name? 32.What Botanist quoted: A flower is an educated weed? 33.What garden implement did Edward Beard Budding invent in 1830? 34.Who had the books Fork to Fork 2006 and Around the World in 80 Gardens 2008 published? 35.What was the first garden ever taken on by the National Trust in 1947? 36.What Asian country invented and developed the wheelbarrow? 37.What was the famous 18th century gardener Capability Browns Christian name? 38.What famous garden expert had his first fictional novel Only Dad published in 2001? 39.What garden tool is used for scraping and weeding the surface of the soil? 40.True or false: Carrots are a root vegetable? 41.What are the plots of land set out for non-professional gardeners called? 42.What English county is known as the Garden of England? 43.What nationality was 20th century landscape gardener Edna Walling? 44.Which cereal must be grown in water rice, wheat or barley? 45.For what American newspaper did C.Z Guest write a gardening column in 1976? 46.What ITV program did Charlie Dimmock join as the garden expert in 2011? 47.Who was presenter of the BBCs Gardeners World from 1980 to 1982? 48.What is the shrub Calluna better known as? 49.What famous English gardener was born in 1913 and died in 1988? 50.What is the plant Helianthus better known as? 51.What are the three major plant nutrients? 52.During what two months of the year does the Forget-me-not flower? 53.Opened in March 2001 where is the largest greenhouse in the World? 54.Who was the genius behind the creation of Hidcote Manor Gardens in 1910? 55.What does the abbreviation RHS mean? 56.Since 1862 what name was the Chelsea Flower Show formally known as? 57.How many people visit the Chelsea Flower Show each year 157,000, 167,000 or 177,000? 58.What is the name given to someone who has a fear of flowers? 59.Which year was the first Hampton Court Palace flower show held 1790, 1890 or 1990? 60.Ran by the British Tourist Board what year was the first Britain in Bloom held? 61.What gardens were considered to be one of the seven wonders of the ancient world? 62.In what country are the public gardens of Central Park, Boston Common and Golden Gate Park? 63.True or false: Mistletoe berries are not poisonous? 64.In what type of garden would you find Rosemary, Thyme and Sage? 65.What Wiltshire garden houses The Temple of Apollo? 66.In what month is the Chelsea Flower Show held? 67.What is the title of Alan Titchmarshs biography published in 2002? 68.What is the shrub Genista better known as? 69.What is the Latin name for the Petunia? 70.In what English county is Robert Harts forest garden situated? 71.Who was the famous English Rose grower born in 1898 in Nottingham? 72.True or false: Tomato is a vegetable? 73.Who exhibited the Irish Sky Garden at the 2011 Chelsea Flower Show, the first garden to be suspended in the air? 74.What colour is the Rose Damask Bella Donna? 75.Which year did the first hover mower go on sale 1960, 1963 or 1966? 76.In what country was garden expert Monty Don born? 77.What is the name of the widely grown evergreen hedge tree? 78.What is the Latin name for the Busy Lizzie? 79.What Buckinghamshire garden houses the Temple of Venus? 80.What is the name for someone who has a fear of trees? 81.What country houses the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? 82.What organisation took over the administration of Britain in Bloom in 2002? 83.In what year did the Chelsea Flower Show first take place in Chelsea? 84.In what year did the Museum of Garden History open in London? 85.What colour is the semi-double climbing rose Lawrence Johnston? 86.What is the shrub Lavandula better known as? 87.In what year was Percy Thrower honoured with an MBE? 88.What is the name given to clipping trees and hedges into ornamental shapes? 89.What nationality was Albert Wilson gardener, botanist and landscape architect? 90.What kind of vegetables are lettuce and spinach? 91.What are hand pruning shears also known as? 92.In which year did John Loudon write the books The Suburban Gardener and Villa Companion 1838, 1839 or 1840? 93.Where in the UK did Joseph Paxton build the largest greenhouse/conservatory in 1851? 94.Which garden designer made this quote: The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies? 95.Zucchetta Rampicante is an heirloom vegetable vine from which country? 96.What religion is the Lotus flower associated with? 97.What is the most poisonous variety of mushroom? 98.What was the first garden hose made out of? 99.Lachanophobia is a fear of what - grown in the garden? 100.Which year was the Garden History Society founded 1965, 1967 or 1969? Answers 1.Violet-purple 2.Kew 3.South West England and South Wales 4.March, April and May 5.25% 6.Cabbage 7.Gloucestershire 8.Tremayne 9.1804 10.Walnut 11.Russell Page 12.William Robinson 13.Heading back and Thinning 14.Belgium (Brussels) 15.60 16.1970 17.June 18.Cucumber 19.China 20.True 21.April 22.50 years 23.Potato 24.Ken Burras 25.Garlic 26.Garden Catalogue 27.Germany 28.Charlie Dimmock 29.Dr Leonard Fuchs (Botanist) 30.Venus Flytrap 31.The Looking Glass Tree 32.Luther Burbank (1849-1926) 33.Lawn Mower 34.Monty Don 35.Hidcote 36.China 37.Lancelot 38.Alan Titchmarsh 39.Hoe 40.True 41.Allotments 42.Kent 43.Australian 44.Rice 45.New York Post 46.Daybreak 47.Geoffrey Smith 48.Heather 49.Percy Thrower 50.Sunflower 51.Nitrogen, Phosphates and Potash 52.April and May 53.Eden Project in Cornwall 54.Lawrence Johnston 55.Royal Horticultural Society 56.Great Spring Show 57.157,000 58.Anthophobia 59.1990 60.1963 61.Hanging Gardens of Babylon 62.USA 63.False: They are poisonous 64.Herb Garden 65.Stourhead House 66.May 67.Trowel and Error 68.Broom 69.Petunia 70.Shropshire 71.Harry Wheatcroft 72.False: Fruit 73.Diarmuid Garvin 74.Light Pink 75.1963 76.Germany 77.Leylandii 78.Impatiens 79.Stowe House 80.Dendrophobia 81.Iraq 82.Royal Horticultural Society 83.1913 84.1977 85.Yellow 86.Lavender 87.1984 88.Topiary 89.American 90.Leaf 91.Secateurs 92.1838 93.Crystal Palace 94.Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) 95.Italy 96.Buddhism 97.The Death Cap 98.Ox gut 99.Vegetables 100.1965