25 more questions

Chan the Bookish Gardener has posted her own list specifically for gardeners. How can I resist?

1. Lilies: oriental or asiatic? Oriental
2. No-till or till? No-till
3. Bare hands or garden gloves? Bare hands
4. Garden tchotchkes, no or yes? No
5. Clay or sand? Clay
6. Shrub roses or hybrid teas? Shrub
7. Hollyhocks: single or double? Single
8. Foliage: gray or glaucous? Gray
9. Hemerocallis: flava or fulva? flava
10. Impatiens: double or single? Single
11. Calendula or tagetes? Tagetes
12. Arborvitae or juniper? Juniper
13. Spaded edge or "edging"? Edging
14. Asters or mums? Asters
15. Reflecting pool or coursing waterfall? Pool
16. Morning glory blue or forget-me-not blue? Forget-me-not (but which one? Anchusa? Myosotis? Brunnera?
17. Lettuce: leaf or cos? Leaf
18. Hyacinth bean or red runner bean? Scarlet runner
19. Orange or pink? Orange
20. Garden bed shapes: formal or informal? Formal
21. Garden bed planting schemes: informal or formal? Informal
22. Hydrangeas: lace-cap or mophead? Mop
23. Spirea japonica: dried flowerheads standing over the winter or in bloom? In bloom
24. Japanese beetle drowning medium: kerosene or dishsoap solution? Detergent
25. Garden stroll time: dusk or dawn? Dusk

If I counted correctly, this gives me a Bookish Gardener index of 64%. It would be higher, except that Calendula and Arvorvitae don't like Kansas summers.

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Very nice! On forget-me-nots, I had cynoglossum in mind. (And, of course, it should have been "scarlet" for "red" on the runner bean.) Cheers.

No tchotchkes? Not even a tasteful gazing ball? Tsk, tsk....