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Come one, come all!!
Have a go. After all they do say that thought will stave off 'old timers disease'!
(not that I'd know) um. What was that I just said?
Cheers
Steve
Cryptic Gardening # 3
Ok. Here is your bedtime puzzle:
'A wharf in the US? No, a far eastern island. No, in California'
A woody shrub known for it's flowers.
Genus and Species
Cheers
Steve
G'Day Budgieman. I think that is Pieris formosa but there is Pieris japonica both could fit the clue and I can't fit Californian in unless there is a spp.
Regards Brian
Stake, there is a P. japonica called 'flamingo'
G'Day Gardengal.
Budgieman says "Genus and Species" nothing about cultivars which you indicate 'Flamingo' to be and we still haven't accounted for California.
Brian
You're it Stake
Pierus japonica
The California bit was it's abbreviation CA
Pierus (wharf) in the US
japon (far eastern island)
in california (CA)
Pierus japonica
formosa would have fit without the california bit.
Working on another.
Were there any unsolved to be brought forward?
Cheers
Steve
These were left behind in the previous thread.
G'Day brought these down from way up there.
Nobody has got this one. "Sounds like Facial feature precedes nobility" A lawn plant.
Or this one either. "Sound like two Echidnas" the common name of which, is probably the best known of all Cacti.
I'll give a clue to the lawn plant "The nobility should be in the toilet"
I am wondering if the lawn plant is not as well known as I thought. "Facial feature is Lip and nobility is Peer or if in the toilet pea-er = Lippia.
I urge you others to think about the two Echidnas this is not hard, perhaps too obvious.
Another one "Rooster's Bug Rake"
One for Budgieman "President Ford sounds heavy with the candle grease" Native shrub
Geraldton Wax
You got that one CT better see if I can think up another one. "Baseball Player Sows Seeds" Well known but not often seen other than in its natural habitat in WA.
Another one "Carriage Timber" NativeTree
Brian
pitcher plants
boxwood tree
Pitcher Plants is right but not the Boxwood.
CT is on fire!
How about Coachwood?
Lovely timber.
Bought a 60's gardening book from the Lion Ladies who set up stall every Sat in Sussex. Cost a whole $3 and is full of old world stuff.
Try this easy one for starters:
Automobile country
common name for this perennial.
Cheers
Steve
Carnation
See! You are on fire!
Vulpes wear these when working in the garden
Common name Biennial plant
Cheers
Steve
Your Coachwood is right Budgieman. Still no one had a go at these.
. "Sound like two Echidnas" the common name of which, is probably the best known of all Cacti.
"Rooster's Bug Rake" I'm assuming the bugrake was common to us all as young'uns.
I won't answer that one yet let the others have a go at it first.
This message was edited Feb 7, 2009 5:32 AM
One for you to ponder while playing the guitar Budgieman."The Poncho before Thorax Fastner" Fair sized tree.
Brian
Budgieman
Sydney
(Australia)
February 7, 2009
5:29 AM
foxgloves
Stake
Barmera
(Australia)
February 7, 2009
5:49 AM
Cape Chestnut
Stake,
"Rooster's Bug Rake" = Cocks Comb (Celosia)
(and yes - not needed on for quite a while!)
CT,
Foxgloves correct
and i'm sure you got Cape Chestnut correct.
Stake - have not ignored the pesky echidnas. Just don't know my cactus too well yet and don't have a good reference book.
This one may take some research.
Shrub native to coastal areas of an eastern state. (but I'm sure grown all over the country)
Genus - 'Atop a Budgies beak a flower parts speech is hesitated'
Species - ' Not a Eucalypt? If speech is twice hesitated'
Cheers
Steve
G'Day Budgieman
Pleasant weather here today, after surviving yesterday 48c, would probably need a jumper in hell. I hope you have the cool change too.
Think your plant should be "Ceratopetalum gummiferum" the "Christmas Bush"
The cactus puzzle is a common name.
Regards Brian
This message was edited Feb 7, 2009 10:58 PM
Spot on Stake.
Atop a budgies beak = cere or having a cere = cerate
A flower part = petal
Speech is hesitated = um
Ceratopetalum
Not a Eucalypt? = Gum
If speech is hesitated twice = er um
gummiferum
I'll start my guess at 'Spiny Cactus'
Cheers
Steve
Yep Stake. Beautiful NE here today. Straight off the ocean. (well. technically diagonally off the ocean) Don't think my Budgies would survive 48 degrees. Hottest they have been exposed to was 42 degrees. I don't know if they still contain the genetic capability to survive outback heat. Interesting thought actually as they will all stop silent if they hear a Currawong even though they have never been exposed to the dangers of one.
'A natural thread at a Christian festival'
(That's all i'll give you at this point)
Cheers
Steve
Budgieman
Sydney
(Australia)
February 7, 2009
11:29 PM
Post #6108406
Cotoneaster
No Spiny Cactus is not it. I think that everyone is assuming this is hard "Because Stake Knows Cacti". I think you would all be surprised to know how little I do know about cacti".
The added clue "Probably the best known of all cacti" doesn't say that it is necessarily 'The Best Liked'.
Regards Brian
Ok. Just thought outside the square!
'Prickly Pear'
i.e. two echidnas
CT - Correct with Cottoneaster
Steve
Saint at the rink
ctmorris
barmera
(Australia)
February 8, 2009
3:46 PM
Statice (Limonium) ?
Steve
correct Steve
You got those Echidnas at last. Now I'll have to think of something else.
"The Secretion of certain marine Polyps plus Chewy" Native tree
Another one "A Wooden case and what was in the lion's foot". a woody weed.
"This tree should fly"
"Type of music finished with a musical note" deciduous tree
Specially for the Ladies "Second Grade Blanket and the Possessive Male is finally first class"
boxthorn for the first
Boxthorn is right but it's not the first one, there is one above it.
>"The Secretion of certain marine Polyps plus Chewy" Native tree
Coral gum?
"This tree should fly"
A wild guess on this one - Bat's Wing Coral Tree, Erythrina vespertilio?
This message was edited Feb 8, 2009 8:24 PM
Gardengal Coral Gum (Eucalyptus torquata) is right but the other isn't. It might help to know it is an exotic.
Brian
Plane?
Seraphim's boast over ram-abusing trauma. Common and Latin genus name
This message was edited Feb 9, 2009 1:56 PM
G'Day Alistair, Pleased to meet you, metamorphically speaking. That's it and it should fly.
Think I have your common name got to find the botanical one.
Regards Brian
I didn't know that the Daturas are now Brugmansia. So I think the Common name "Angels Trumpet" is now "Brugmansia" sauveolens. Darned if I could get Ram Abusing to fit Datura.
Brian