#6 Kent's Garden

Instructions in English

Congratulations, you found a UC 4-H Community Adventure Challenge! Let’s have some fun!

Your challenge is to memorize and find some of the plants in the garden. A good memory and awareness of your surroundings is important to Adventurers.

These adventures are located all around Yolo County (a complete list of locations can be found on the navigation bar on the left).

Below are directions for how to complete this fun activity. You may choose to do all three levels of difficulty, each is a little different. Select which level you would like to try first.

Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced

There is also an activity you can do at home at home below.

BEGINNER

Find the rocky path that leads through the middle of the garden.

As you carefully walk down this path, be careful not to touch any mossy rocks. If the moss is disturbed it wont grow back.
Notice the signs as you walk.
People in different parts of the world speak different languages. What language do you speak?
These signs tell you what the name of the plant is in both Latin and English.
Can you sound out some of these letters and words?

INTERMEDIATE

Walk through the path carefully. Do not touch any mossy rocks (if the moss is disturbed it won’t grow back) and read each of the identification signs.
The word on top is in Latin. The word in all capital letters is in English. The word in quotes is the common, or slang name, for the plant.
Try to memorize the English words.
Once you have walked through the entire garden, try to find the following plants from memory:

[ ] Gold coin aster	[ ] New Zealand wind grass	[ ] Yarrow
[ ] Argentine rain lilly	[ ] Buckwheat	[ ] Oregon grape
[ ] Foothill penstemon	[ ] Lion’s tail	[ ] Tall verbena
[ ] Texas Ranger	[ ] Blue mist	[ ] Bottlebrush

ADVANCED

Walk through the path carefully. Do not touch any mossy rocks (if the moss is disturbed it won’t grow back) and read each of the identification signs.
The word on top is in Latin. The word in capital letters is in English. The word in quotes is the common, or slang name, for the plant.
Try to memorize the Latin words.
Once you have walked through the entire garden, try to find the following plants from memory:

[ ] Mahonia a quilifolium	[ ] Astericus maritimus	[ ] Callistemon viminalis
[ ] Eriognonum umbellatum	[ ] Penstemon heterophyllus	[ ] Achillea
[ ] Stipa arundinacea	[ ] Caryopteris x clandonensis	[ ] Leonotis leonurus
[ ] Zephyranthes candida	[ ] Leucophyllum langmaniae	[ ] Hersperaloe parviflora
[ ] Verbena bonariensis

AT HOME ACTIVITY

Want to do another activity like this at home? Download the Google Translate App and learn how to say some of the things around your house in Latin! (and Spanish, Chinese, Russian, and many other languages).

This garden was planted and is maintained by dedicated volunteers in the Master Gardener program. You can find out more about the UC Master Gardener program at http://yolomg.ucanr.edu/

LOCATION (for those without a smartphone)

Woodland, UC Cooperative Extension office, 70 Cottonwood Street.

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The boys enjoyed the walk and smelling the French Lavender plant. It was a challenge to read the words in Latin. Andrew enjoyed practicing his reading skills.

Posted by Henry and Andrew Podsakoff on January 10, 2021

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