Quiz week four
Anagrams
1. Briers be – Berberis
2. Rue phobia – Euphorbia
3. Gain loam – Magnolia
4. Oh mania – Mahonia
5. Name one – Anemone
6. Begin ear – Bergenia
7. Inch meal era – Amelanchier
8. Arum lip – Primula
9. Climes at – Clematis
10. Rod horded non – Rhododendron
Every week during the Lockdown, W Yorks HPS member Kathy Howard will produce a horticultural quiz to keep our minds fresh. The answers (no cheating please!) will be published alongside the following week’s quiz questions.
For answers to Quiz 4, click here
This week, the challenge is to match the plant with an extract from the RHS description. All are plants we expect be in flower in Spring
The Plants
a. Ceanothus
b. Heuchera
c. Daphne
d. Hyacinthoides
e. Geum
f. Darmera
g. Polygonatum
h. Aquilegia
i. Astrantia
j. Allium
The descriptions
1. “compact umbels of tiny flowers surrounded by a rosette of showy bracts
2. “glossy, elliptic leaves and pendant, tubular or bell-shaped flowers”
3. “bell-shaped flowers with spreading, coloured sepals and petals with spurs
4. “pinnately lobed leaves and saucer-shaped flowers in loose clusters
5. “linear to strap-shaped leaves and bell-shaped or star-shaped blue, violet or white flowers”
6. “star-shaped or bell-shaped flowers in an umbel on a leafless stem”
7. “small blue, pink or white flowers in profuse axillary or terminal clusters”
8. “rounded clusters of star-shaped white or pink flowers on tall stems, before the leaves
9. “with small, usually very fragrant tubular, 4-lobed flowers”
10. “clump-forming perennials with attractive, rounded, shallowly palmately lobed leaves
April 27 to May 3rd
Weather: The last week of April is much cooler, with occasional rain, but still some sunshine to be enjoyed.
Ann Fritchley weighs in with an excellent selection
Maggie Sugden is back with the first rose of summer!
Here’s Maggie Youdan with a varied selection of beauties
Terry Benton is back – not sure I can cope with snails, even little ones..
Pat Hunter offers a superb Erythronium picture
Joyce Kenny is keen to enjoy her hostas before any molluscs do
Kate van Heel has been looking at Anemones this week
Here are the new arrivals in the Hackett’s garden this week
Another interesting contribution from Judith Ladley, including a welcome return for that handsome Hebe hulkeana:
A first appearance in the Lockdown Gallery for Denise Dyson (and that Hebe is back…)
Preston Harrison returns to the gallery with a cracking selection
by Catherine Horwood
A personal review by Judith Ladley
On looking through the April edition of the RHS magazine recently I noticed two book reviews by Fergus Garrett which looked particularly interesting. The first was a book about Jimi Blake, a recent lecturer at our last Conference, and the second was Catherine Horwood’s biography of Beth Chatto and her life with plants. This proved the more tempting and having just had a win on the premium bonds (£25!) I treated myself via e-bay.
It is an extremely comprehensive coverage of Beth’s life, telling of her childhood love of gardening, her education, early marriage to Andrew Chatto and later the many and varied personalities in the world of horticulture who became her friends. I was particularly interested in Beth’s friendship with Cedric Morris and, later, her association with Christopher Lloyd.
I first learned about Beth Chatto and her nursery through flower arranging classes in the 1970s and by the early 80s decided it was time to take a trip down to Colchester. Along with three flower arranging/gardening friends the visit was arranged and we decided to call at Bressingham Gardens, then in its heyday, to break our journey. After a night spent in Diss we progressed on to Colchester and Elmstead Market and after a picnic in the car park (now the gravel garden) we toured Beth’s beautiful garden before progressing into the nursery area (bliss).
In her book Catherine tells of Mrs Desmond Underwood’s great friendship with Beth. I do know we visited Mrs Underwood’s nursery, where she specialized in silver plants, but I did not realise she had such a great influence in starting the nursery.
After a night spent in Colchester we set out for home. My Austin Metro was crammed full: four ladies and over 60 plants. It was a long hard drive, but well worth the effort.
I am reading this delightful book slowly – something to look forward to each day, it could not have come at a better time.
Judith Ladley
Publication details
Beth Chatto: a life with plants
by Catherine Horwood
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Pimpernel Press Ltd; (5 Sept. 2019)
ISBN-10: 1910258822
Every week during the Lockdown, W Yorks HPS member Kathy Howard will produce a horticultural quiz to keep our minds fresh. The answers (no cheating please!) will be published alongside the following week’s quiz questions.
For answers to Quiz three, click here
This week we have anagrams.
These are all plants that may be in flower in your garden in April. Unscramble these words
1. Briers be
2. Rue phobia
3. Gain loam
4. Oh mania
5. Name one
6. Begin ear
7. Inch meal era
8. Arum lip
9. Climes at
10. Rod horded non
Quiz week three
Name the year
1. Chelsea Flower Show temporarily lifts its ban on garden gnomes.
2013
2. The Eden Project’s full site opens to the public
2001
3. Certain single tulip bulbs sell for more than ten times the annual income of a skilled craftworker.
1637
4. First series of ‘Gardeners World’ is broadcast from Oxford Botanical Gardens
1968
5. The Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew first opens its doors to the public
1840
6. Beth Chatto’s ‘A life with plants’ is published.
2019
7. Britain sees the number of allotments double to 1,400,000.
1943
8. The ‘Hardy Plant Society’ is formed
1957
9. Capability Brown, son of a land agent and a chambermaid, is born.
1716
10. Thompson and Morgan purchase the world’s first black hyacinth ‘Midnight Mystique’ bulb for £50,000
1998
April 20 to April 26
Weather: Still dry – very much the theme of April 2020, with bright blue skies tempered by an easterly wind
Judith Ladley starts off week 5
Another Judith – this is Judith Edmond’s first time in the Lockdown Gallery – welcome!
Sue Gray makes a welcome return, including some plants from David Barnes’ garden
Terry Benton is back with some more bee flowers
Carine Carson has a very classy pear tree, with an even classier name
Remember Nette Bricker-Barrett from Massachusetts complaining that her garden is so brown, compared to ours? Well it isn’t brown anymore, but…
Your editor, Brian Hackett, has also been trying his hand at a lasagne tulip bowl. Also, some lovely acid greens and the first flower of the water hawthorn
John and Joyce Kenny present this lovely Erythronium ‘Joanna’, as featured in April’s Plant of the Month.
Another excellent and varied selection from Diane Rawnsley, with a mystery plant at the end. My guess is Lunaria rediviva, the perennial honesty – let us know your thoughts!
Here’s an interesting idea from Pat Hunter – all the different Peonies in her garden, taken on the same day, showing their great variety
Every week during the Lockdown, W Yorks HPS member Kathy Howard will produce a horticultural quiz to keep our minds fresh. The answers (no cheating please!) will be attached to the following week’s quiz questions.
For answers to quiz two, click here
This week’s quiz is a match the event to the year!
Choose the correct date from this list for each event
1. Chelsea Flower Show temporarily lifts its ban on garden gnomes.
2. The Eden Project’s full site opens to the public
3. Certain single tulip bulbs sell for more than ten times the annual income of a skilled craftworker.
4. First series of ‘Gardeners World’ is broadcast from Oxford Botanical Gardens
5. The Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew first opens its doors to the public
6. Beth Chatto’s ‘A life with plants‘ is published
7. Britain sees the number of allotments double to 1,400,000
8. The ‘Hardy Plant Society’ is formed
9. Capability Brown, son of a land agent and a chambermaid, is born
10. Thompson and Morgan purchase the world’s first black hyacinth ‘Midnight Mystique’ bulb for £50,000
Quiz week two
What do these sets of four have in common?
1. Dorothy Perkins, Elizabeth Taylor, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lord Byron
All had roses named after them / varieties of roses
2. Sir Nicholas Bacon, Thomas Andrew Knight, Elizabeth Banks, Sir Simon Hornby
Past and present presidents of RHS
3. ‘Percy Thrower, Arthur Billitt, Geoff Hamilton, Alan Titchmarsh
Lead presenters of Gardeners’ World
4. Kim Wilde, Jonathan Price, Gordon Sumner (sting), George Harrison
Musicians turned gardeners
5. Pierre- Joseph Redoute, Raymond Booth, Anne Pratt, Marianne North
Botanical artists
6. Mrs Bradshaw, Lady Stratheden, Emory Quinn, Stevie Nicks
Varieties of Geum
7. John Rowland, Groundskeeper Willie, Mr McGregor, Samwise Gamgee
Fictional gardeners
8. Kate Moss, Mavis Simpson, Alan Mayes, Ann Folkard
Varieties of Geranium
9. King William, Aeolus, Arethusa, Bellona
Temples in Kew Gardens
10. Estella Rijnveld, Prinses Irene, Irene Parrot, Jan Reus
Varieties of tulip
April 13 to April 19
Weather: This week starts with Easter Monday, but the weather switches back to a cold northerly.
Diane Rawnsley has some varied environments in her garden and they are all delivering fine plants
Next is a view from the Kenny’s garden – Woodroyd and some impressive plants
Ann Fritchley has a handsome visitor in her garden, besides some very lovely plants
Terry Benton is keen to grow flowers to attract bumble bees
Maggie Sugden is next, with some early clematis, among others
Ann Lowe is joining the Lockdowners, with her first contributions:
And here’s Maggie Youdan’s latest:
Preston Harrison shows how his garden has come on since week one:
