Garden Trivia

Do you know the modern names for these old timers?

In Shakespeare’s time a rose was a rose, but many other plants weren’t known by today’s common names. Can you match the contemporary names with the names form an earlier day?

  1. Jack-in-the-pulpit
  2. Clove pinks
  3. Bayberry
  4. Dandelion
  5. Ground ivy
  6. Colt’s foot
 a.) Gillyflower
b.) Ale hoof
c.) Piss-a-bed
d.) Dragon’s flower
e.) Candleberry
f.) Coughwort

Answers: d-Dragon's flower, a-Gillyflower,
e-Candleberry, c-Piss-a-bed, b-Ale hoof, f-Coughworth