Puzzles and prizes

Win a handy Stayhold Boot Organiser, or £50 of vouchers for Hayloft Plants

CLUES ACROSS

6 Any one of the carnivorous plants belonging to the genus drosera (6) 7 ‘Prince - - - -,’ Borodin opera and red hot poker cultivar (4) 8 orange-red floribunda rose exalting Forces sweetheart Dame Vera - - - - (4) 9 large genus of plants whose species include catchfly or campion (6) 10 - - - - - marigold or kingcup, Caltha palustris for damp, shady sites (5) 12 Astilbe or - - - - - goatsbeard with flowering spikes in various shades (5) 15 red - - - - - -, edible ornamental of the atriplex genus (6) 17 See 5 Down 19 Month lending its name to the early summer ‘drop’ of immature fruit (4) 20 Soil’s chemical compound that dissolves to give a pH higher than 7 (6)

CLUES DOWN

1 40th anniversary name for astrantia, rose or camellia ‘- - - - wedding’ (4) 2 Feathery-leaved crowfoot genus also known as pheasant’s eye (6) 3 leaf beet or - - - - - chard, popular in Mediterranean cuisine (5) 4 ornithologist Mr oddie, author of Tales of a ludicrous Bird Gardener (4) 5 and 17 Across Shrubby red-barked dogwood with white flowers (6,4) 11 Devil’s ivy – gold-splashed leafy houseplant, Epipremnum - - - - - - (6) 13 northernmost uS state inspiring the name of a self-fertile hardy holly (6) 14 Phormium - - - - -, new Zealand flax grown for its strap-shaped leaves (5) 16 ‘De - - - -’, Anemone coronaria group from a city in nw France (4) 18 Shape of blooms broadly produced by campanula species (4)