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 ..."?
Here is the poem ...
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. What are their full Christian names?
7. Name this flower?
What is its common name (named after an insect which feeds on it)?
8. Name this flower (herb)?
It is said to aid what condition?
9. Name this flower (weed)?
Which other plant goes with this to make the ingredients for a fizzy drink?
10. Name this flower?
Which famous artist painted a vase of them, in 1887?
Here is the painting ...
11. Name this flower?
Describe how you would make a chain out of them.
Time for another singalong - YouTube link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl0ldpTlQkY
12. What do you call a bicycle built for two?
13. Name this flower?
Which kitchen item takes its name from them?
14. Name this flower?
What spice is made from a part of it?
15. Name this flower?
What food substance is its name associated with?
16. Name this flower?
What UK holiday is it associated with?
17. Name this flower?
What does its colour, reflected under the chin, signify?
Time for another singalong - YouTube link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCED4g1dMTQ
18. Which animal is commonly called Buttercup?
19. Name this flower?
What day in November is it associated with?
20. Name this flower?
What medicine is it associated with?
21. Name this flower?
What religion is it associated with?
22. Name this flower?
Which 1990s TV comedy series is it associated with?
Here is a clue ...
23. Name this flower?
Which 'little man' had a hit with a song about this flower in 1968?
Time for another singalong - YouTube link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfLU3Mv_O9w
24. Who famously had another hit song about tulips?
Here it is - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPsq6flck2A
25. Name this flower?
True or false. It is the floral emblem of the city of Los Angeles?
26. Name this flower?
Name the TV celebrity who throws these flowers out at the end of their show?
Here she is ...
27. Name this flower?
Which musical instrument is it associated with?
28. Name this flower?
Which charity uses this flower as an emblem for trained volunteers?
29. Name this flower?
Which group had a hit with a song with this flower in its name in 1968?
Time for another singalong - YouTube link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuP1JvOhNlA
30. What was their other hit song, which was used to advertise 'Cadbury's Roses'?
31. What are flowers which come back every year called?
32. Name these three flowers?
What season are they associated with?
33. What do the letters RHS, which come before the 'Chelsea Flower Show', stand for?
34. What is this green sponge, used for flower arranging, called?
35. What is a flower shop called?
Time for another singalong - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-eclUz-RYI
36. Complete this saying ...
"Roses are ***, Violets are ****, Honey is ***** and so are ***."
37. Name the famous gardener?
38. Name this famous gardener?
39. Name the famous gardener?
40. Name this famous gardener?
41. Name this famous gardener?
And another - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK-p8l8fdNE
42. Try and remember the flowers mentioned in the first line of the song?
What year did she win the 'Eurovision Song Contest'?
43. What group of people are associated with the 'Flower Power' movement?
And our final song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I0vkKy504U
44. What colour is the 'Golden Gate Bridge'?
What is the name of the nearby island prison?
Final song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxSTzSEiZ2c
45. Which William Shakespeare play does the line "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" come from?
ANSWERS
1. Rose
England
2. Thistle
Scotland
3. Daffodil
Wales
William Wordsworth
4. Shamrock
Ireland
5. Rosemary
'Scarborough Fair'
6. Paul & Arthur
7. Buddleia
Butterfly bush
8. Lavender
Insomnia
9. Dandelion
Burdock
10. Sunflower
Vincent Van Gogh
11. Daisy
* Make a daisy chain
12. Tandem
13. Marigold
Rubber gloves
14. Crocus
Saffron
15. Carnation
Evaporated milk
16. Poinsettia
Christmas
17. Buttercup
A like of butter
18. Cow
19. Poppy
Remembrance Sunday 11th November (or nearest to)
20. Foxgloves
Digitalis
21. Lotus blossom
Buddhism
22. Hyacinth
'Keeping Up Appearances' (Hyacinth Bucket - Patrica Routledge)
23. Tulips
Tiny Tim ('Tiptoe Through The Tulips')
24. Max Bygraves
25. Bird Of Paradise
True
26. Gladioli
Dame Edna Everage / Barry Humphries
27. Pansy
Viola
28. Forget Me Not
Dementia Friends / Alzheimer's Society
29. Lily
'The Scaffold'
30. 'Thank You Very Much'
31. Perennials
32. Bluebells, Snowdrops & Primroses
33. Royal Horticulture Society
34. Oasis
35. Florist
36. "Roses are RED, Violets are BLUE, Honey is SWEET and so are YOU."
37. Percy Thrower
38. Alan Titchmarsh
39. Charlie Dimmock
40. Monty Don
41. Diarmaid Gavin
42. Snowdrops and daffodils / 1970
43. Hippies
44. International Orange / Alcatraz
45. 'Romeo And Juliet'
