Garden Basics
A food waste that can be reused as fertilizer?
What is compost?
A common name for plants in the genus Narcissus, and it is known for its early spring bloom
What are daffodils?
The term for the method of growing plants in a water-based solution without soil
What is hydroponics?
Its licorice like flavor is popular in candies and it is used in liqueurs, the best known of which is Ouzo from Greece
What is Anise?
The name of this autumn bloomer is from the Greek for gold and flower
What is chrysanthemum?
A plant that usually grows somewhere where you don't want it to grow
What is a weed?
This low-maintenance and popular plant, known for surviving in minimal soil and needing occasional soaking, might droop when thirsty
What is an air plant?
This technique involves cutting away parts of a plant to improve its shape or productivity
What is pruning?
Most widely used culinary herb in the United States, not sage, rosemary, or thyme
What is parsley?
This flower resembles a dragon
What is a snapdragon?
True or False: Soil is alive
True! There are more than a million things living in one teaspoon of soil?!
This plant, also known as Lavandula, is famous for its calming scent and purple flowers
What is lavendar?
The term for practice of growing plants in vertical layers to save space?
What is vertical gardening?
The spice that gives pizza its characteristic flavor
What is oregano?
Each year, Holland, holds a festival honoring this flower?
What is a tulip?
A flower that was once more valuable than gold?
What are tulips? In the 1600s in Holland, people loved tulips so much that they were more valuable than gold.
This common houseplant is known as Ficus elastica and is celebrated for its large, glossy leaves
What is the rubber plant?
What is bonsai?
This spice that comes in pods is called 'the Queen of Spices' in India
What is Cardamom?
Ikebana is a traditional art of arranging flowers in this country
What is Japan?
True or false: You should water your garden more on hot summer days than on cool fall days.
True! Water evaporates faster on warm days than on cool days, which means plants need to be watered more when it's hot.
This perennial herb, Artemisia dracunculus, is common in French cuisine
What is tarragon?
Identify the method of propagating new plants from a 'mother' plant's leaf, stem, or root cuttings
What is cloning?
Comes from a flowering plant in the crocus family and it's the world's most expensive spice. It is costly because more than 225,000 stigmas must be hand picked to produce on pound
What is saffron?
Dorothy and her friends encountered a field of these flowers that made them fall asleep.
What are poppies?