Cryptic Gardening # 3

G'Day
I think I have it at last "Ulmus parvifolia" The Chinese Elm.
Brian

This message was edited Feb 11, 2009 8:43 AM

Yes :-)

Well. 24 hours and stoney silence.
Brad, acting overseas, is p...d on liquor.
He uses his latin and Vietnamese money to buy a leaf.
It does not work so he uses Jim's silver.
Genus, Species, Cultivar.
Here's a starter that should solve it.
'Ask Angelina'
Cheers
Steve

all I've got is 'dong'. Am I right so far??

Sorry Budgieman but your clues are too long for me. By the time I get to the bottom I've forgotten what I read at the top. I'm still trying to find the missing tooth for Alistair.
Regards Brian

This message was edited Feb 12, 2009 6:32 AM

A puzzle for you to work on. "Mother Pig with an indeterminate number" A tree, I warn you this is a hard one.
Brian

An easy one " The sticky stuff in front of the lair is first class" Native shrubs.
Might as well put this up as well "Common bellyache before the tennis shot makes me hesitate." native plants.
Now back to the missing tooth.
Brian

This message was edited Feb 12, 2009 7:15 AM

Budgieman
Sydney
(Australia)

February 11, 2009
4:21 AM

Steve is the solution to Brad's dramas Angelica polymorpha sinensis, AKA Dong quai?

No Gardengal but you have the right 'Brad'
Let's start from the easy end then.
'Jim's Silver' These two words have two alternative words that would give you the cultivar.

Just home from work and heading down to the Inlet now.
Have scribbled all these down for some 'light' reading.

Have a page of notes for missing teeth too.
See you all on Sunday night
Cheers
Steve

G'Day
I think you have me beat by referring to people I don't know about plants I don't know.
"Jim's Silver" ought to be "James's argentia" or perhaps 'Jamie'
Who's this Brad I thought it was a small nail.
Still working on the missing tooth.
Regards Brian

Budgieman
Sydney
(Australia)

February 12, 2009
4:36 AM
Pittosporum Genus Is it Silver Tarata if so it is Eugeniodes. Don't know where the Dong comes in.

Hi all.
CT gains a point for the Genus
'Brad' PITT (acting was a clue to the right Brad)
Overseas = OS
'P....d on liquor = PORUM
Pittosporum.

Stake has one of the cv words
Need a type of silver (with a letter change)

Had intentions of solving some of these but have few reference books down the coast.
Will have a go now.
Cheers
Steve

Stake,
Is mother pig common or botanical names?
Cheers
Steve

CT - Vietnamese monetary unit - forgot to say look for a 100th of a dong
Then think latin
Cheers
Steve

G'Day Budgieman The Mother pig is its common name and believe it or not there is a non-obvious clue you might miss.
Brian

"Common bellyache before the tennis shot makes me hesitate."
Gastrolobium (good one Stake)
Steve

Budgieman
Sydney
(Australia)

February 15, 2009
2:54 AM

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Pittosporum genus Hosmeri species or Ho'awa James Stirling cv

CT gets 2 points
Genus and CV
I reckon you will be at the top of the class.
You're nearly there.
Did you find that the Vietnamese currency is 'xu' (1/100th of a dong)
Then think latin as Brad did.
Ask our good friend Mr Google
Cheers
Steve

p.s. please bring down unsolved so we can refresh our memories

How about Buxus

Is there a Pittosporum buxus?

He uses his latin and Vietnamese money to buy a leaf

Using his latin
'xu' would be 'Tenu'
and 'leaf' would be 'folium'

Pittosporum tenuifolium 'James Stirling' - great hedging plant

I'll have to keep to the abridged versions. This was as difficult to put together as
it was to work it out. Giving you full marks CT.
Now throw one back at me and make it hard - I deserve it!
Budgie

Here is an easier one.

A Roman Sun God and and Egyptian Sun God meet a Dutch Princess

Climber - Genus and Species

Cheers
Budgie

Don't think these have been solved yet.
An easy one " The sticky stuff in front of the lair is first class" Native shrubs.
And this. "Mother Pig with an indeterminate number" A tree, I warn you this is a hard one.
We haven't solved Alistairs Missing Tooth yet.
Your Pittosporum was well thought out Budgieman but I just couldn't get any where with it particularly the CV. I didn't know they had CVs of them.
Regards Brian

"A Roman Sun God and and Egyptian Sun God meet a Dutch Princess

Climber - Genus and Species

Cheers
Budgie"

Solandra maxima

This message was edited Feb 17, 2009 5:36 PM

Sure is Alistair.
SOLandRA
Maxima (Dutch Princess)

Stake - this is a good learning tool for me. I have seen and read about so many plants that I would otherwise not have known about.

I found the missing tooth! Mother Pig has it in her den!
Now down to business
Cheers
Steve

Homework:
Concerning Fingers. Two cat sounds each produce a biennial.
Genus and Species.
Cheers
Steve

G'Day
I don't get the Mother pig missing tooth one is that a solution to Alistairs missing tooth or something else Budgieman draw me a picture. I had no hope with Solandra, I don't know the plant and looking for clues my references said that the Roman sun god was Titan, Hyperion or Apollo, I had the Dutch princess but of course couldn't make anything else fit.
Brian

How about "Digitalis purpurea"

Stake. Did you have that answer stored waiting for the question?
As for my earlier banter - that was just me being me.
Solandra - I don't know the plant either - or didn't. That's what I mean about learning.
I now know a bit about it and sun gods and Dutch Princesses.
All necessary brain fodder?
Steve

The other half of yellow that makes green is hanging in the church.

If they are native ones they are Wahlenbergias.

Budgieman in a way I did have that waiting but only because I knew the plant genus but I had to get the species from references. Don't forget I've been trying for a week to get that missing tooth and the Pittosporum with no luck.
Brian

This message was edited Feb 17, 2009 10:32 PM

This is a Native Shrub Genus "A heap an like this".
Another one "They say the cereal is crushed" another native shrub.

>If they are native ones they are Wahlenbergias.

Could you please humour me and explain how you came to this answer please Brian? I can't for the life of me get my head around it.

EDIT: Duh, forget it - they're bluebells, of course!

This message was edited Feb 17, 2009 4:10 PM

Good one Gardengal

Sorry for the confusion Gardengal. I thought I was being clever letting CT know I had the answer but leaving the puzzle open to others, and you got it for us. Beauty. I reckon you can get this one that I moved down specially for you.
Brian
"They say the cereal is crushed" another native shrub. Common name

This message was edited Feb 17, 2009 6:30 PM

This message was edited Feb 17, 2009 7:26 PM

G'Day
Alistair I think you are going to have to tell us the Missing Tooth one, I'm right out of ideas and no one else seems to have an idea on it. A victory for you because there are not too many that aren't answered.
Brian

Well probably not so much of a victory as a bad clue LOL

A missing tooth and so on from a tough blue.

A gap an[d] thus

Agapanthus - a tough blue :-)

That's a good clue and I'm thoroughly ashamed of myself and I bet Budgieman is too.
Regards Brian

DOH! Alistair - Do I get one point for gap?

Stake - The answer to yours is muesli !!!

Will come back to these when I come down from a long day.
Cheers
Steve

The start of kangaroo, a boy's name and shoe with a c. a succulent