Crossword ...just for fun!

ACROSS

1 and 13 DOWN Highly renowned gardens and horticultural college at Enfield, north London (5,5) 3 Type of hotel cabbage! (5) 7 This acer is equal to 4,840sq yd or 43,560sq ft! (4) (anag) 8 The above-ground stalk of a vascular plant (4) 9 Found in apples, this is abbreviated software downloaded by a user to a mobile device! (3) 11 Genus name for the snowdrop (9)

14 Tillandsia argentea is commonly known as the ___ plant (3)

16 Anders (or Andreas) ____ (1751– 1789) was a Swedish botanist, after whom one of our most popular hobby plants was named (4)

17 To dig the soil is to lift a clod and to ____ it (4)

18 This series of aquilegia (columbine) varieties is vocal and/or instrumental sounds combined to produce beauty of form, harmony and emotion! (5)

19 French flower, while the _____s-de-lis is a stylised lily (5) DOWN

1 Leafy vegetable, often the suffix to ruby or Swiss – akin to spinach (5)

2 Several firethorns! (11) 4 The specific branch of agriculture relating to the raising of grapes and grapevines (11)

5 Delicious food, as in the variety of Primula auricula, and Narcissus ‘_____

Mummy’! (5)

6 Cut off the top of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree (3)

9 Genus of evergreen trees and shrubs from South America, possessing bright yellow flowers; distantly related to willows (5)

10 AG’s columnist Mr Seabrook (5)

12 Rockery and border perennial, often called the ‘ice plant’ (5) 13 see 1 ACROSS

15 You end up sick if you take 500 from dill! (3)