Unwinding thru a Garden Maze
By: Julie Barnes
As we end another garden season. Let's slow down and learn thru a little garden trivia.
1. This term applies to trees or shrubs that shed their leaves every autumn?
2. Better known as Helianthus annuus, its flower follows the sun's movement?
3. The pigment that gives plants their green color?
4. Recognized as the most popular flower in the world?
5. Removing dead or overgrown branches to improve plant health and form is?
6. This kind of plant is identified by its retention of leaves or needles year-round?
7. Known to be the fastest growing plants, often used as wind-breaks or privacy screens?
8. The world's most expensive spice, Saffron, comes from this flower?
9. The application of water to assist plant growth, rather than relying on rainfall alone?
10. The most common and widely consumed vegetable in the world happens to be?
11. What is the name for a plant that produces cones?
12. This herb has a calming scent that is often used in sleep sachets?
13. Whether green, red, orange or yellow this vegetable is high in vitamin C?
14. This underground bulb is edible and can be a real tear jerker?
15. After sunset, this bright full moon gave fall farmers extra light to gather summer crops?
16. The first recorded people in history who used scarecrows to protect crops from quail?
17. How many individual gardens are there in Pennsylvania's Longwood Gardens?
18. A flower bed drama queen where the flower "snaps" when you squeeze its sides?
19. A garden technique of rotating garden crops to improve soil health?
20. A carrot color before they were selectively bred?
21. These are plants that live for more than two years?
22. This beneficial soil organism improves soil structure, health, and fertility?
Answers: 1. Deciduous 2. Sunflower 3. Chlorophyll 4. Rose 5. running 6. Evergreen 7. Bamboo 8. Crocus 9. Irrigation 10. Potato 11. Coniferm12. Lavender 13. Pepper 14. Onion 15. Harvest Moon 16. Egyptians 17. Forty 18. Snapdragon 19. Crop Rotation 20. Purple 21. Perennials 22. Earthworm