Puzzles 2012

[Paul T]

I still wouldn't recognise them as tulips, even with the full photo.    They look more like artichokes. 

[Maggi Young]

I still wouldn't recognise them as tulips, even with the full photo.    They look more like artichokes. 

 When I saw the name of the tulips 'Groen Artisjok'... I thought it was worth checking the translation... and yes, there is a clue...  they're called 'Green Artichoke' - don't you love it when you can find method in a plan? 

I don't think I can remember ever seeing a tulip with so many petals.

[Brian Ellis]

Well done Ulla, and Luit for a great puzzle, like Maggi the scale threw me entirely, I was thinking of small like a sedum

[Anthony Darby]

I'm looking at it thinking yes, green artichoke, and no I think the breeder shouldn't have bothered.

[ronm]

A very healthy plant, with a strong association with the SRGC,



But what is it and why?

[Maggi Young]

Well, what I know about the umbelliferae could be written on the head of a very small pin... but I do love a puzzle....
Got a few possibilities in mind for the plant, but what any of them might have to do with the SRGC is quite another puzzle....
Smyrnium olusatrum,  Angelica archangelica and  Ferulago sylvatica seem possible candidates but I cannot find an SRGC connection

[Lvandelft]

For me it looks like celery or maybe better parsley, which I found out being also known as rock-cress?
Healthy for sure but I still don't see the association with SRGC, other than "rock" 

[ronm]

I was a little worried when I saw you had replied to this puzzle Luit. But no, .... off the mark.

[Anthony Darby]

Reminds me of Fatshedera.

[Maggi Young]

Oh, yes, I can see that, sort of, Anthony. Don't think the SRGC has more than its fair share of fat heads, though, surely? 

[Anthony Darby]

 

[ronm]

I really thought the Dutch members would have got this immediately, and probably the German members too.

It is a culinary items ( all its parts in different ways ), and the association is more with a prominent person within the SRGC, rather than the Club as an entity. 

Fingers need to be pulled out gang, 

[Lina Hesseling]

Is it in dutch, a maggieplant?
It is used in soups.

Normally you don't let is flower, because it will loose taste.

Lina.

[ronm]

 

Yes its Levisticum officinale, Lovage ( English ), Maggiplant in Dutch and Maggikraut in German. Apparently so named as the plant tastes like the seasoning for Maggi soup.

Every Garden Club or Forum should grow one, 

[Maggi Young]

Well done Lina!
I thought I was on the trail with some edible umbellifers....   

Now I know what to tell members when they ask what would happen to the forum without me..... easy answer now.... GROW a new Maggi !