Gardening Australia

Solve the crossword and you could win 1 of 6 Lady Prong digging tools, worth $89 each

Put the kettle on – it’s time to relax! Solve our puzzle to be in the running to win a Lady Prong digging tool

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1. North American plant yielding a pungent oil (11) (Picture A)

7. Cultivated produce (4)

9. Old World plant of the borage family (7) (Picture B)

10. Very beginning (colloq.) (3-2)

11. Because (abbrev.) (3)

13. Bulbous plant of the lily family (8) 14. Hard grains left after the milling of flour, used in pasta (8)

15. Destroyed (6)

16. Spanish celebratio­n (6)

18. Salad ingredient (5)

20. The New Zealand tree Melicytus ramiflorus (5)

22. Six-legged arthropod (6)

24. Provoke (4,2)

29. Southern blue gum (8) 31. The rosebay willowherb, which springs up after bushfires (8)

33. This tree (3) (Picture C)

34. Pink and grey cockatoo (5)

35. Fish with whisker-like barbels around the mouth (7)

36. Flower cluster with a central stem bearing a single terminal flower that develops first (4)

37. A confection of mixed fruits (5-6)

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1. Atmospheri­c conditions (7)

2. Smooth-skinned peach (9)

3. Evasive, difficult to find (7)

4. Shoots or twigs inserted into another plant (6)

5. Ova, roe (4)

6. A crazy or eccentric person (colloq.) (6) 7. Succulent green vegetable tasting like cucumber (5)

8. Complex, showy flowers of the family Orchidacea­e (7)

12. Crambe maritima or … (3,4)

17. Unspecifie­d doctrine (3)

18. Gai lan or … broccoli (7)

19. A baglike cavity in an animal or plant (3)

21. Mentha longifolia or … (9)

23. Strong apple cider (7)

25. High-frequency loudspeake­r (7)

26. Stir-fried noodle dish (3,4)

27. The Western Australian tree Eucalyptus salubris (6)

28. Alternativ­e spelling of ‘lychee’ (6)

30. Blue-flowered plant named after a musical instrument (5)

32. Informal talk (4)

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