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If you had all correct, you could host your own garden show. One to three wrong makes you the neighborhood horticultural guru. Four to six incorrect answers, and you just need more gardening experience. More than six wrong: Call an expert.
AND NOW, THE ANSWERS
1. c: Deer feasted on evergreen Japanese euonymus shrubs and wiped out our perennial hosta. But bleeding heart, rohdea and hellebore perennials have grown in our woods, unbrowsed, for six years.
2. b: Any fertilizer must be in liquid form to be absorbed through the cell walls of tiny feeder roots. This occurs by osmosis. For fertilizer to work, it must have water. A fungus that grows on feeder roots, called mycorrhiza, helps roots absorb nutrients.
3. a: Photosynthesis is the process of sunshine acting on the carbon dioxide and water absorbed by green leaves to manufacture the sugars and starches plants need to grow.
4. c: Healthy plants have a natural resistance to pests. But without proper conditions -- good soil, moisture, drainage, air circulation and sunlight -- insects and diseases meet little resistance.
5. c: Plants can self-propagate by many means. Ferns are one example of a nonflowering plant that propagates by means of spores and prothallia, or growth from the parent plant.
6. a: There is only one berry that rivals blueberries and boysenberries for pies: serviceberries. When they're ripe, you have to beat the birds to them.
7. c: The best-known green roof is probably the 2,500- to 3,000-year-old Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
8. a: Sweet box, a handsome, deep-green subshrub in heavy shade, fills the air with fragrance from tiny flowers hidden under the leaves when it blooms in late March to early April.
9. a: Native does not mean that a plant will grow anywhere in a region. It depends on soil, moisture, pH, light and other requirements, as with all plants.
