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gordonf
Happy Collector
Vancouver Island, Canada
Scientific Names30 Jan '07 5:56 pm
Hi, Eggy-
I'd be happy to look up some of the names you're after, but I think 200 is a bit much. Maybe 50??
-gordonf |
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Bambi
Slowly Learning Gardener
Kent, England
30 Jan '07 10:38 pm
Hi Eggy, I’d be happy to do some research for you – as many as you want – I’d quite enjoy having little project like that which I could do in the evening when it’s all horrible and dark outside!  |
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jacqueline
Thankful Gardener
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
30 Jan '07 11:00 pm
Count me in, Eggy! I'd be most delighted to help! |
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Eggy
webmaster & eldest son
Camberwell, London
Scientificus Namus31 Jan '07 12:39 pm
Wow! many hands make light work. We've done 185 possible plants so far.
If you'd like to help, post what numbers you would like to 'reserve', wait a few minutes then refresh this post before you start.
1 a blushing pink iceberg rose.
2 a gorse bush.
3 a naked lady! Oops. A nerine.
4 a pink weigela shrub.
5 a hosta clump.
6 a white cistus shrub.
7 a clump of cherry Penstemons.
8 a yellow pansy.
9 a tree peony.
10 a percy wiseman rhododendron.
11 a huge gunnera plant.
12 a purple Iris.
13 a tree? Or a red rose? Oh dear?
14 a little blue pansy - or a large grass?
15 a bi-coloured Lupin.
16 a choisya sundance shrub.
17 a red and yellow dahlia.
18 a coral Peony.
19 a pink rhododendron.
20 a nicotiana sylvestris.
21 a variegated white honesty plant.
22 a cerise dahlia.
23 a red pittosporum.
24 a rusty coloured daylily.
25 a canary bird rose.
26 a Rhapsody in Blue rose.
27 an orange calendula.
28 a John Clare rose.
29 an anonymous fern.
30 a bearded blue and white iris.
31 a stylish pampas grass.
32 a purple flowering hebe.
33 a magenta foxglove.
34 a rose-eastlea's golden rambler.
35 a shaggy shasta daisy.
36 a beautiful rhododendron.
37 a lilac Aquilegia.
38 a white iris.
39 a magenta lychnis.
40 a brown leafed Heuchera.
41 a white marguerite daisy.
42 a lime green kniphofia.
43 a spring daffodil.
44 a Pseudopanax - that's a tree.
45 a Mermaid rose.
46 a lemon daylily.
47 a white daisy.
48 a most unusual pelargonium.
49 a nasturtium flower.
50 a spiky red cordyline.
51 a rose - or a delphinium?
52 an angelica seed head.
53 a variegated hosta.
54 a snowy flax.
55 a silver leafed cineraria.
56 a spotty ligularia.
57 a weedy geranium.
58 a jester flax.
59 a wallflower.
60 a beverly hills hebe.
61 a self seeded blue pansy.
62 an unknown rose, probably old fashioned.
63 some type of shrub?
64 something pink - a flax? Or a rose?
65 a viburnum tinus shrub - or tree!
66 a canna lily.
67 a weeping red cordyline.
68 a lily called Vivaldi.
69 a yellow Euphorbia.
70 a crab apple tree.
71 a stinging nettle.
72 some sort of parterre plant.
73 a clematis montana.
74 an echinops flower.
75 a coriander seedling.
76 a bowles mauve wallflower.
77 a hakoneolea - or a pelargonium?
78 a hosta - or golden marjoram?
79 a mixed border plant - but which type?
80 a blue agapanthus.
81 a red flax, you hope!
82 a green and gold sedum.
83 a yellow polyanthus.
84 a blue ground cover.
85 a hybrid flax called Cream Delight.
86 a New Zealand Astelia.
87 a brilliant yellow dahlia.
88 a mauve hydrangea.
89 a cosmos flower.
90 a blue petunia.
91 a blue primrose.
92 a common forget-me-not.
93 a pink annual lavatera.
94 a little myrtle.
95 a bergenia.
96 a variegated pittsporum.
97 a miscanthus zebrinus.
98 a little blue euphorbia.
99 a daphne bush.
100 a rosemary bush.
101 a fireglow euhporbia.
102 a purple smoke bush.
103 a hypericum shrub.
104 a berberis shrub
105 an erica shrub.
106 a brand new wisteria.
107 a catmint plant.
108 a weedy verbascum.
109 a pnk phlox.
110 a lime green hellebore.
111 a blue lupin.
112 a variegated sedum.
113 a perennial geranium.
114 a blue salvia superbum.
115 a blue delphinium.
116 a eucomis.
117 a dandelion weed.
118 a blue aster.
119 a scrohularia.
120 a stachys plant.
121 a dark blue aquilegia.
122 a perennial achillea - or a rose?
123 What's this? A tree stump?
124 an olearia hedge.
125 a bedding annual.
126 a blue nigella.
127 a toad lily.
128 a pink tulip.
129 a purple cornflower.
130 a special forget-me-not.
131 a californian poppy.
132 a sweet allysum plant.
133 a red hollyhock.
134 a campion weed.
135 some spring blossom.
136 an apricot daffodil.
137 a lemonwood.
138 a lime green nicotiana.
139 a clary sage.
140 a pastel rose.
141 a libertia.
142 a President Roosevelt rhododendron.
143 a little violet.
144 a cistus shrub flower.
145 an icerberg rose.
146 a succulent - possibly a sedum?
147 the white rose prosperity.
148 a fluffy ink filipendula.
149 a japanese anenome.
150 the rose complicata.
151 a foxglove.
152 a lly of the valley
153 a ballerina rose.
154 a blue agastache.
155 the alexander rose.
156 a variegated coprosma.
157 a yellow kowhai.
158 a green and red cordyline.
159 the rose gertrude jeckyll.
160 a claude monet rose.
161 a pnk camellia.
162 a hebe.
163 an iris japonica.
164 a graham thomas rose.
165 a sexy rexy rose.
166 the climbing rose compassion.
167 an angelica gigas.
168 the rose fruhlingsmorgen.
169 an abraham darby rose.
170 the rose othello.
171 a canna lily flower.
172 a red hot poker.
173 a moonlight rose
174 a soft orange dahlia.
175 a small red flax.
176 a New Zealand pepper tree.
177 the queen of the violets rose.
178 a pasque flower.
179 the rose english elegance.
180 a climging masquerade rose.
181 a bluebell.
182 a crepuscule rose.
183 a flax? Or a pretty hydrangea?
184 red or blue? Foliage or flower?
185 a fern? Or a peony rose? |
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gordonf
Happy Collector
Vancouver Island, Canada
What Plant is This?31 Jan '07 2:01 pm
Hi, Eggy-
Here are the numbers I'd like to "reserve": 2, 3, 4, 9, 18, 20, 21, 35, 42, 43, 56, 68, 69, 71, 77, 92, 97, 101, 110, 117, 127, 148, 172, 178.
I'm not "attached" to these ones, and I'd be happy to try to find others, but these are the ones that match my special interests and which I know of sources to help me.
Cheers,
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Eggy
webmaster & eldest son
Camberwell, London
3 Feb '07 11:47 pm
Righto,
Too many volunteers to email (thanks everyone)!
The what plant am I quiz isn't finished but is ready for testing. Before you start bear in mind :
* email a friend doesn't work yet
* Some of the questions and answers contain QUESTION MARKS that should be apostrophes and quotation marks. Whoops!
* Layout is still a bit rough around the edges
* There are a few Spelling mistakes
* missing photos for some of the plants
* missing text explaining exactly how the quiz works, answering questions, starting over etc.
* We are writing multimedia questions including images, video and sound at the moment. None of these questions are loaded in yet.
and probably a few bugs and strange things going on we haven't discovered yet. There is lots more conversational text from moosey to come, especially at the end of the quiz, which is a bit empty at the moment.
The stuff that matters is working OK. There are 150 questions, and about 250 plants you can be. If you have half the fun doing this as we've has making it we should be on to a winner.
The quiz URL for the moment is :
http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/wpai/
I've got some questions about the quiz I'll post later. |
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Liza
gardening consultant
Waterloo, Belgium
A Canary Bird Rose!3 Feb '07 11:59 pm
Well, the plant that suits me for the moment is,....a Canary Bird Rose! I do not even have it in the garden, but, at least, I do love "wild" yellow Roses!
And, Eggy, since I have always been crazy concerning the knowledge of botanical names of plants, please tell me, on which plants you need me to help you (except the N.Zealand natives , please)! O.K. It is not practical , you see, that all of us who help work simultaneously on the same plants... |
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Faith S
Perpetually learning gardener
Alabama, USA
Othello Rose4 Feb '07 4:04 am
Well, you could have knocked me over with a feather. "dramatic, smouldering rose, deeply emotional and obviously adore Shakespeare". I do enjoy Shakespeare and I am a very emotional (as in wearing emotions on my sleeve)person. Never thought of myself as dramatic or smouldering. Maybe I should re-think my self-evaluation. I'll let you know if I become a drama queen.
The quiz was loads of fun! Marjory Fish? Where did that one come from? |
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moosey
head gardener
Eek! Aargh!4 Feb '07 10:58 am
Please, please, please tell me if being any of the plants actually hurts your feelings! It's a fine balance to amuse without causing pain. I'll be sorting out the obvious mistakes later today.
One thing - and please be honest again. I think that there are too many words en route to the final plant. It's like there's just a bit too much to read. But maybe I'm looking at it from a teacher's point of view.
And if any of the descriptions is just too boring, please tell me!
Faith - Shakespeare only turns up once - what a hoot!
Liza - I hope you'll enjoy answering the questions! I'd be interested if you end up being the same plant.
Cheers, and thanks so much for all your kindnesses. |
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