Here is a 'Flowers Picture Quiz', just for fun. The aim is to identify each flower and answer each associated question. After every 5 of the 25 questions, there is a song link to YouTube, to give the opportunity for a singalong. To make the session even more multi-sensory, have some flowers from the garden on hand to smell, arrange or draw.
Have fun!
1. Identify this flower?
Which UK country is it the national flower of?
2. Identify this flower?
Which UK country is it the national flower of?
3. Identify this flower?
Which UK country is it the national flower of?
Also which poet was inspired by it, to write "I wandered lonely as a cloud ..."?
4. Identify this plant?
Which country is it the national flower of?
5. Name this flower (herb)?
Which Simon & Garfunkel 1966 song has this flower in its chorus (along with parsley, sage and thyme)?
Time for a singalong - YouTube link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BakWVXHSug
6. Name this flower?
What is its common name (named after an insect which feeds on it)?
7. Name this flower (herb)?
It is said to aid what condition?
8. Name this flower (weed)?
Which other plant goes with this to make the ingredients for a fizzy drink?
9. Name this flower?
Which famous artist painted a vase of them, in 1887?
10. Name this flower?
What do you call a bicycle made for two?
(Also, describe how you would make a chain out of them.)
Time for a singalong - YouTube link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl0ldpTlQkY
11. Name this flower?
Which kitchen item takes its name from them?
12. Name this flower?
What spice is made from a part of it?
13. Name this flower?
What liquid food substance is its name associated with?
14. Name this flower?
What UK holiday is it associated with?
15. Name this flower?
What does its colour, reflected under the chin, signify?
Time for a singalong - YouTube link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCED4g1dMTQ
16. Name this flower?
What day in November is it associated with?
17. Name this flower?
What medicine is it associated with?
18. Name this flower?
What religion is it associated with?
19. Name this flower?
Which 1990s TV comedy series is it associated with?
20. Name this flower?
Which 'little man' had a hit with a song about this flower in 1968?
Time for a singalong - YouTube link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfLU3Mv_O9w
This is a very annoying rendition, so here is an alternative song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPsq6flck2A
21. Name this flower?
True or false. It is the floral emblem of the city of Los Angeles?
22. Name this flower?
Name the TV celebrity who throws these flowers out at the end of their show?
23. Name this flower?
Which musical instrument is it associated with?
24. Name this flower?
Which charity uses this flower as an emblem for trained volunteers?
25. Name this flower?
Which group had a hit with a song with this flower in its name in 1968?
Time for a singalong - YouTube link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuP1JvOhNlA
ANSWERS
1. Rose
England
2. Thistle
Scotland
3. Daffodil
Wales
William Wordsworth
4. Shamrock
Ireland
5. Rosemary
'Scarborough Fair'
6. Buddleia
Butterfly bush
7. Lavender
Insomnia
8. Dandelion
Burdock
9. Sunflower
Vincent Van Gogh
10. Daisy
Tandem
11. Marigold
Rubber gloves
12. Crocus
Saffron
13. Carnation
Evaporated milk
14. Poinsettia
Christmas
15. Buttercup
A like of butter
16. Poppy
Remembrance Sunday 11th November (or nearest to)
17. Foxgloves
Digitalis
18. Lotus blossom
Buddhism
19. Hyacinth
'Keeping Up Appearances' (Hyacinth Bucket - Patrica Routledge)
20. Tulips
Tiny Tim ('Tiptoe Through The Tulips')
21. Bird Of Paradise
True
22. Gladioli
Dame Edna Everage / Barry Humphries
23. Pansy
Viola
24. Forget Me Not
Dementia Friends / Alzheimer's Society
25. Lily
'The Scaffol
Here is Vincent Van Gogh's painting, 'Sunflowers' ...
To finish, here are William Wordsworth's poem ...
You might like to read this out together?
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazed—and gazed—but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.
