Grow Your Garden Style: A Quiz to Cultivate Your Aesthetic!

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Quiz Questions

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It's been a long day... Honey, Can you pour me a cocktail? Which onedo you choose?
- A.
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  Death in the Afternoon
- B.
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  Wild Sloe Gin Rickey
- C.
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  Honey Bee Martini
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  Sparkling Rhubarb Lemonade
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  Pop Rock Kamikaze Shot
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  Manhattan
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  Moscow Mule
- H.
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  Moroccan Mint Tea
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Words to live by....
- A.
  "She lives the poetry that she cannot write" - Oscar Wilde
- B.
  "Make it simple, but significant" - Don Draper
- C.
  "There is nowhere to go but everywhere so just keep on rolling under the stars." -Jack Kerouac
- D.
  You can't be sad when you are holding a cupcake.
- E.
  Always be yourself unless you can be a unicorn, then be a unicorn.
- F.
  I've got a thing for Genuine People.
- G.
  Live Simply. Dream Big. Be Grateful. Give Love. Laugh Lots.
- H.
  "The man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest" - Henry David Thoreau
3.
All the world is birthday cake, which piece do you take?
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  The one with Sparklers!
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  The natural layered ombre cake.
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  The modern elegant gateau.
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  More of a casual scattering than a cake - with flowers.
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  The fun one. It's hard to refrain from stealing a raspberry.
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  Straight out of the seventies.It's probably German chocolate with coconut inside.
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  Clean and stylish. But also like a computer error design.
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  Simple and straightforward (it's just chocolate and vanilla) but chic.
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The color of my life is….
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  Teal
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  Navy Blue
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  Bright Pink
- D.
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  White
- E.
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  Yellow
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  Silver Blue
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  Orange
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  Burgundy
5.
Where words fail, this music speaks.
- A.
  Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna
- B.
  Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
- C.
  Lorde - Royals
- D.
  Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
- E.
  Fun - We are Young
- F.
  Clash - Janie Jones
- G.
  Italo Bros - Stamp on the Ground
- H.
  Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night
- I.
  Answer I
6.
I lust for...
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  Peacock Hanging Chair
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  Twig Bench
- C.
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  Wall Mounted Staghorn Ferns
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  Oak Wheel Bench
- E.
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  Giant Lawn Dice
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  Steel Life Jacks Planter
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  Gabion Bench
- H.
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  Chimes
7.
I don't care if it works for my garden, I want to plant it anyway….
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  Ferns of all sorts!
- B.
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  Pony Tail Palm (big or small)
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  Wild Teasel - (Dipsacus fullonum)
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  Giant Allium - Farily wands in flower form.
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  Hens and Chicks (Sempervivum tectorum)
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  Blue Fescue (Festuca glauca)
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  Nicotiana (Tobacco Plant)
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  Moss - soft pillowy mounds, touchable sheets of it.

Quiz Outcomes

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Enchanted Bohemian
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The Bohemian garden captures the spirit of a restless heart and is inspired by a lust for travel and exotic places and a life filled with literary pursuits, art, music, and personal passions - This enchanted garden style relies on collections of natural materials laid out in the most casual style and with a disregard for perfection. Then presented as if you couldn't care less what anyone thinks of them (which is harder than it sounds!).
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Forest Temple
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A design preference for tree people, fairy lovers, and wood nymphs re-incarnated. The forest temple, an all-senses experience, is for those who find comfort and peace in being surrounded by trees and greenery. Based in woodland garden style, these gardens are perfect for a plot that already contains woods. But a vacant or overgrown urban lot, a courtyard, or even a greenhouse can take on these moody vibes too.
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Organic Modern
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Organic modern style gathers up rustic and natural materials, bits and pieces of a story, and unpretentious beauty, and combines them in simple and sophisticated ways. Organic Modern is for lovers of clean, uncluttered, light-filled spaces that bloom with plants and vegetation. Filled with warm neutrals, and eclectic but serene style, this garden style combines hard and soft in a way that positively impacts its surrounding ecosystem.
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Sacred Meadow
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Quite the opposite of a manicured lawn, a meadow teems with life and variety and is a lively turf alternative that requires less of our own controlling input. The mixed plants of a sacred meadow are sustainable, even in drought-prone areas. A meadow-style garden has a way of embracing you and sharing a sense of being wild. Stretch your hands out and run your fingers over the tops of plants and feel cocooned in a landscape that also supports edible and medicinal plants, beneficial bugs, and pollinators.
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Playful Pop
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Appealing to families with kids - but also lovers of lively color and charming happy places. The playful pop garden is engaging and encourages time spent outdoors in an unfussy and creative way. This garden style is about creating creative and fun family gardens and artful, playful spaces that can grow, age, and evolve as gracefully as we all hope to.
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Retro Rockery
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Layered with vintage vibes and a nod to objects that recall memories of another era - the Retro rockery garden is a timeless garden style that is perfect for low-water areas and for lovers of iconic elements, specimen plants, gravel, and rocks, This casual and charming style is full of characterful details, alpine and rugged plants, and quirky retro design (from across ages) for gardeners who want to infuse thrifty finds and beloved objects into their outdoor living rooms.
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Earthy Contemporary
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Wabi Sabi Industrial
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Wabi Sabi and Industrial styling are really two different things- but both work for someone who wants to celebrate the simple, everyday utility and lovers of the warmth that comes from time and patina. This garden style finds beauty in imperfection, and enjoys stripped-back architecture, and salvaged objects to create a simple, clean, modest, and effortlessly chic garden style.