Midwinter gardening quiz #3

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Yes, yet another one. A question for each of the twelve days of Christmas.
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Some of the best plants have been developed by breeding from disparate parents. I have done a little genetic juggling to produce some garden designers and pundits. Some are historical, some are more modern. Whom do you get if you cross the following:

1 A conqueror with the Garden of England?

2 A knight of the round table with an ex-PM (adding parenthetical competence)?

3 Hamlet's mother with an unstable Victorian doctor?

4 A Latin life, a dismissal, a French town and a compass bearing?

5 A transatlantic lavatory, professions and humbug?

6 A Duke of Northumberland with one who hurls a discus?

7 Oryctolagus cuniculus with an Irish pint?

8 My French house in Wales with a university academic?

9 Yours truly with a tiny wet place?

10 A man-shaped jug with a dollar and terra firma?

11 A Christmas song with little German?

12 A Nazareth carpenter and a virgin?

Happy puzzling :) :)
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I am working on it, Alan. Not having a TV, I thought I might be at a disadvantage, but the recent forum discussion about Gardeners World is proving useful!
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I've got all but No 5. Will sleep on it overnight and it will probably come to me in my dreams - some chance.
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Morning Monika

Remarkably good going! Number 5 is rather historical and intended as a stinker!

Anyone else got them?
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I've got number ten, already. :)
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Stiill working on No 5. Meanwhile, I have sent you a PM for the rest. By working through our gardening books new and old by tonight, I might be able to guess it.
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Impeccably correct answers, Monika! There are actually two answers to Qu. 5, though the names are the same - and you're back in the 16th-17th centuries :wink:
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Monika's now got question 5 answered - so all 12 correct. When are the rest of you going to have a go?
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Sorry Alan, it's just too hard for me. :?
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Thanks yet again - just got round to this.

I suppose being Christmas it was OK to include the odd turkey.
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Thanks Geoff - you join Monika in the winners enclosure :wink: :wink:
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