Crossword

...just for fun!

ACROSS

1 Shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods (5)

3 This Sunday is the _____ of November (5) 7 Angelica is also known as ‘____ of the Holy Ghost’ (4)

8 A small malus would be a ____ apple, perhaps (4) 9 BBC TV gardening co-presenter Swift (3) 11 This Sunday is ___ ______ 18 across! (3,6) 14 Bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristle-like appendage (3)

16 Type of soil, it is said, with a pH lower than 7.0 (4)

17 Robson is the usual chairman of Gardeners’ Question Time (4)

18 This Sunday is bonfire _____ (5)

19 Popular leafy perennial with the common name of plantain lily (5)

DOWN

1 Some types of cornus, acer and prunus are grown for their coloured winter ____ (5)

2 Got tic wound – the action or occupation of sawing timber! (11) (anag)

4 Worthless, pointless and, some say, a third of all grass seed put down is this! (3,3,5)

5 Gardening, it is said, is a _____! (5)

6 A number, as in softwood (3)

9 This port in western Israel is a sweet, seedless orange! (5)

10 _____ Budding (1795– 1846) is credited as being an inventor of the lawnmower (5)

12 Daisies linked! (5) 13 Genus of evergreen plants, having rosettes of long, pointed, and rigid leaves at the top of a woody stem, and bearing a large head of showy white blossoms (5)

15 This river in Surrey is a backward taxus! (3)