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Test your gardening knowledge with our brain teasers this month!
CLUES ACROSS
1 Predominantly nocturnal winged pollinator such as the cinnabar (4) 4 Plant of the genus chichorium whose bitter leaves are used in salads (6) 7 - - - - - - Dorrit, Dickens novel and dahlia and alyssum cultivar names (6) 8 ‘Rose - - - -’. Berberis thunbergii atropurpurea or Japanese barberry (4) 9 Double gold/orange narcissus named for America’s Lone Star state (5) 11 Berry-bearing tree of the sorbus genus also called mountain ash (5) 12 Term used of peas – like Meteor – that mature soonest after sowing (5) 14 Citrus-scented - - - - - balm, perennial herb of the mint family (5) 17 Dutchman’s - - - -, speckled twiner of the genus aristolochia (4) 18 - - - - - spit, froghopper secretion (6) 20 Mespilus germanica, flowering tree whose acidic fruit can be jellied (6) 21 Daisy, Brachyscome iberidifolia, named after Perth (Australia) river (4)
CLUES DOWN
2 Olea europaea, Mediterranean tree with edible green and black fruits (5) 3 Red - - - poker, cottage garden plant of the genus kniphofia (3) 4 Dark spots from which shoots grow on seed potatoes (4) 5 Rosa canina, prickly wild hedging shrub with orange-red hips (3, 4) 6 - - - - - tricolor, heartsease (5) 10 Common valerian supposed to be a remedy for everything! (3-4) 13 Pimpinella anisum, annual herb with strong aniseed flavour 15 Daphne - - - - -, sweetly fragrant winter-flowering evergreen shrub (5) 16 Decorative Japanese maple genus with palmatum ‘Atropurpureum’ (4) 19 Firm-ribbed lettuce commonly known as romaine in the USA (3)
APRIL CROSSWORD SOLUTION
Across: 1 Hellebore, 8 Onion, 9 Layer, 10 Dragon, 11 Blue, 13 Lace, 15 Bowsaw, 18 Nelly, 19 Amigo, 20 Cassiopes. Down: 2 Evita, 3 London, 4 Bolt, 5 Royal, 6 Cordyline, 7 Greenwood, 12 Potato, 14 Calla, 16 Spice, 17 Eyes. Chelsea solutions in our July issue
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNERS!
April crossword: Mrs P Powell, Reading; Gary Sword, Hull; Rita Noble, Welling, Kent; Sharon Andrews, Orpington win a set of 4 Hum pots April wordsearch: Dinah Webster of Gedling, Nottingham wins a £50 Hayloft voucher