Puzzles and prizes

Test your gardening knowledge with our brain teasers this month!

This month you can win a flower card game from Laurence King, or Hayloft vouchers worth £50, with a 10% discount

CLUES ACROSS

1 ‘Baby - - - - -’, compact magnolia cultivar sharing its name with a small piano (5) 4 Units of reproduction in those plants known as angiosperms (5) 6 - - - - - - - communis, castor oil plant (7) 8 Icy white ground deposit threatening tender plants in wintry weather (5) 9 European language from which the name ‘edelweiss’ derives (6) 11 Small dark red stone fruit of which ‘Stella’ is a self-fertile cultivar (6) 13 St - - - - - wort, yellow-flowering herbal plant of the genus hypericum (5) 14 Genus of annuals and perennials that includes the marsh mallow (7) 15 Penelope - - - - -, The Good Life star and a pink-tinged yellow bush rose (5) 16 Country nominally associated with the broom Spartium junceum (5)

CLUES DOWN

1 Union achieved by attaching a bud or scion to existing rootstock (5) 2 Parcel of land rented by an individual for growing flowers and veg (9) 3 Cupid’s - - - -, Catananche caerulea with cornflower-like blooms (4) 4 Troublesome shoot sent up vertically from tree roots away from trunk (6) 5 Brown or black-eyed girl lending her name to rudbeckia species (5) 7 Annual, mainly blue-flowered genus to which ‘baby blue eyes’ belongs (9) 10 Baby’s - - - - - -, common name for Gypsophila paniculata (6) 11 - - - - - plant, another name given to gypsophila because of its fondness for calcareous soils (5) 12 Populus tremula, deciduous tree bearing woolly grey catkins (5) 13 Colourful crow family members – shy birds in woodland gardens (4)