Garden Taste Test

This came by way of  Cold Climate Gardener, K. Purdy, who found it on the Bookish Gardener.  I bolded the preferences I have:

 

Gardeners!

1. Lilies: oriental or asiatic?

2. No-till or till?

3. Bare hands or garden gloves?

4. Garden tchotchkes, no or yes? ( I had to look this up… I would’ve said “gee-gaws”)

5. Clay or sand?

6. Shrub roses or hybrid teas?

7. Hollyhocks: single or double?

8. Foliage: gray or glaucous?

9. Hemerocallis: flava or fulva?

10. Impatiens: double or single?

11. Calendula or tagetes?

12. Arborvitae or juniper?

13. Spaded edge or “edging“? Although almost all my edges are spaded

14. Asters or mums?

15. Reflecting pool or coursing waterfall?  OF course :)

16. Morning glory blue or forget-me-not blue?

17. Lettuce: leaf or cos?

18. Hyacinth bean or red runner bean?

19. Orange or pink? How about orange and pink?

20. Garden bed shapes: formal or informal?

21. Garden bed planting schemes: informal or formal?

22. Hydrangeas: lace-cap or mophead?

23. Spirea japonica: dried flowerheads standing over the winter or in bloom?

24. Japanese beetle drowning medium: kerosene or dishsoap solution? Actually? I just squish ’em, they have not shown up en force

25. Garden stroll time: dusk or dawn? lazy me