Midwinter gardening quiz #1
Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 6:35 am
Something to get the brain working as you look out over the snow-covered and frosted garden 
When this first one is finished I'll put up a few more teasers
PROVERBS
Horticultural images are often used in proverbs, phrases or sayings. Identify them from the following definitions:
1 Root vegetables will not gain a coating of a dairy product simply through the use of pretentious language.
2 I decline to donate the pulpy fruit of the ficus.
3 It's no use thinking you can collect bryophitic plants by using rounded mineral matter, even in motion.
4 Long, green and phallic - but slow to warm up.
5 A container of globose fruit is a metaphor for existence.
6 A quintet is composed of an uncertain quantity of legumes.
7 Sweet fruits of the vine? Just the opposite.
8 Two adjacent seeds from a single parent show a family resemblance.
9 Being acquainted with things that taste fierce and are dome-shaped.
When this first one is finished I'll put up a few more teasers
PROVERBS
Horticultural images are often used in proverbs, phrases or sayings. Identify them from the following definitions:
1 Root vegetables will not gain a coating of a dairy product simply through the use of pretentious language.
2 I decline to donate the pulpy fruit of the ficus.
3 It's no use thinking you can collect bryophitic plants by using rounded mineral matter, even in motion.
4 Long, green and phallic - but slow to warm up.
5 A container of globose fruit is a metaphor for existence.
6 A quintet is composed of an uncertain quantity of legumes.
7 Sweet fruits of the vine? Just the opposite.
8 Two adjacent seeds from a single parent show a family resemblance.
9 Being acquainted with things that taste fierce and are dome-shaped.
