ROUND 4 - general

(What is the more common name for the following garden weeds)

1              Taraxacum officinale 

2              Ranunculus repens

3              Cardamine hirsuta       

4              Stellaria media

(Lawns)

5              What is the main chemical element in a spring lawn food

6              What is Yorkshire Fog      

7              What is meant by thatch

8              What is the main chemical element in an autumn lawn food

 

(House Plants - Common names please)

 

9              Tolmiea Menziesii

10            Ficus Benjamina

11            Lithops

12            Euphorbia Pulcherrima

 

13             How is Sansevieria propagated

14             How is the rubber plant propagated

15             What is an epiphyte

16             What is a terrestrial plant

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ANSWERS

1               Dandelion

2               Creeping Buttercup       

3               Hairy bitter cress  

4               Chickweed

5               nitrogen

6               rough grass

7               dead organic matter accumulated on soil surface

8               potash

9               piggy back plant

10             weeping fig

11             lithops

12              poinsettia

13              leaf cuttings

14              air layering

15              plant which grows above ground attached to trees or rocks without being parasitic

16              plant which grows in the soil