ROCECO WINTER GARDEN QUIZ - WIN £50.00 WORTH OF CHRISTMAS SHOPPING VOUCHERS!

Roceco Winter Garden Quiz

First Prize £50.00 Roceco Christmas Shopping Voucher – For a Greener Christmas! (Plus many other Runner up prizes) e-mail your answers to - sales@roceco.com

The winner will be selected and informed on the 1^st December 2009, so get your answers back as soon as you can for a chance to win!

1) Where is the oldest tree in Britain located? Pontius Pilate was born in its shade and played there as a child.

2) What is the collective name for high-climbing woody vines found in the tropics which Tarzan could have used to swing through the jungle? (some have been recorded as over 3000ft in length!)

3) A Japanese Wisteria is called Wisteria floribunda and a Chinese Wisteria is called Wisteria sinensis….How could you tell the difference?

4) Why are gardeners traditionally said to have ‘greenfingers’?

5) Which native British plant provided the poison used in the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale? This plant is also an ingredient in commonly used heart medication.

6) What is the only tree a monkey cannot climb?

7) Where is the oldest flower show in Britain held each year?

8) In which Century was the Christmas tree introduced to Britain? (in the manner that we use it today – indoors, decorated at Christmas time)

9) Most of us know a leather jacket as a fashion item (commonly worn by The Fonz in Happy Days or James Dean…..) but in what way are most gardeners more familiar with leather jackets?

10) Why is lucky white heather considered lucky?