Midwinter gardening quiz #1

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alan refail
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Something to get the brain working as you look out over the snow-covered and frosted garden :shock: :shock:

When this first one is finished I'll put up a few more teasers :wink: :wink:

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.
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No problems with numbers 2, 7 & 8, but as for the rest of them :?
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Thanks Alan.
Very, very clever stuff.
Still struggling with a few of them..
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Got 3 & 4 now, just no time to spend thinking about it. Maybe later :roll:

Thanks Alan :D
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got 3,4,7,8,&9
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Thanks for that, I hope my pm was all correct, sir (retired).
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Geoff wrote:Thanks for that, I hope my pm was all correct, sir (retired).


Well, Geoff did get the all right.

Anyone else got them all yet ?
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