Amateur Gardening – 20 July 2019

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46 AMATEUR GARDENING 20 JULY 2019


THE cheerful
yellow spring
genista
brooms
have
given
their
name to
the longest
line of kings
in English
history. Count
Geoffrey of Anjou, father of King Henry
II, used to wear a sprig of genista broom
in his helmet. In Latin, the plant was
known as planta genista, and this
turned into the royal name ‘Plantagenet’.
Henry II came to the throne in 1154,
and the last Plantagenet king, Richard III
(pictured), came to his sticky end at the
Battle of Bosworth in 1485, almost 330
years later.

Planta genista!


Gardening’s king of trivia and brain-teasers, Graham Clarke


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This word search comprises
words associated with brooms.
They are listed below; in the
grid they may be read across,
backwards, up, down or
diagonally. Letters may be
shared between words.
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may appear in the grid, but
there is only one correct
solution. After the listed words
are found, there are 10 letters
remaining; arrange these to
make this week’s KEYWORD.

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CREAM
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GENISTA
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PEA
PINEAPPLE
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SPARTIUM
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Historical Gardening Event
Of The Week:19 July 1907

ON this day Sir John Lubbock (Lord
Avebury), who we have to thank for
introducing us to Bank Holidays,
officially opened a Laboratory
Building at the RHS Garden at
Wisley, Surrey. But it was quickly
realised that it wasn’t big enough to
handle all the horticultural science
of the modern age (identification of
plants, pests and diseases, along
with research and garden design).
So, just as the First World War
was starting, architects drew up
plans for a much grander affair, in
the Arts and Crafts style and
strongly influenced by Elizabethan
architecture, as well as that of
surrounding buildings in Surrey.
This resulted in the Laboratory
building we know today (see above).
Although it looks as though it has
stepped right out of Tudor England,
it is actually a 20th century copy!

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cheerful
yellow spring

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history. Count

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THE
yellow spring

given
their
name to
the longest

Planta genista!


Gardening’s king of trivia and brain-teasers, Graham Clarke

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