How’s It Growing

All the clues in this crossword relate to gardening and botany. Solutions at the end

ACROSS

Trailing jungle lianas? (5) Garden favourite typically having simple leaves and tubular blue or purple flowers (7)

Invasive creeper with white trumpet shaped-flowers that chokes other plants (8) Exotic-looking lily with a spike of flowers enclosed by a leafy sheath (4)

Beans that are made into a popular hot beverage (6) County known as the Garden of England (4) Japanese variety of

23 Across which is known for its ornamental foliage (4)

Bulb family that includes onion, chives and garlic (6) John —, Regency architect who designed the Conservatory at

Kew Gardens (4)

Horse —, alternative name for a conker (8)

22 Toxic plant also known as

stinking nightshade (7)

23 Tree whose leaf is the national symbol of

Canada (5) 6 7 9 10 11 13 15 16 17 19

DOWN

Oval fruit also known as the Chinese gooseberry (4) Tall grasslike plant used for thatching (4)

Common water feature (4) Aloe —, succulent plant with wide-ranging healing properties (4)

Diverse arboreal genus that includes the guelder-rose and the wayfaring tree (8) Creeper with glossy leaves that are commonly chewed in Asia (5)

Flower with characteristic upswept petals (8)

Tree popularly decorated at Christmas (3)

Prized ornamental carp that might be seen in a 3 Down (3)

British deciduous tree found by rivers (5) Flowering plant native to New Zealand named after the Greek goddess of youth and spring (4)

Bamboo stem used to support young plants (4) 20 Garden amphibian (4)

21 Irregularly shaped hybrid

citrus fruit (4)

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