PUZZLES & PRIZES
Test your gardening knowledge with our brainteasers this month!
CLUES ACROSS
1 ‘- - - - - - - - Lecter’, neoregelia cultivar named after The Silence of the Lambs cannibal (8) 6 Stachys byzantina or lambs’ - - - -, perennials with soft, silvery foliage (4) 7 Shape of the five-pointed flower of Platycodon grandiflorus (4) 8 English county in which the gardens of Hever Castle are situated (4) 9 Pink South American genus commonly known as mask flower (7) 12 - - - - - - - marigold, taller-growing annual of the tagetes genus (7) 15 Herbaceous plant known as wild carrot or Queen Anne’s - - - - (4) 17 ‘Thomas - - - -’, nurseryman lending his name to white-edged 1 Down cultivar (4) 18 Night-flying pollinating insect such as garden tiger and yellow tail (4) 19 Nerium - - - - - - - -, toxic Mediterranean flowering shrub (8)
CLUES DOWN
1 Popular herbaceous perennial foliage plant – plantain lily (5) 2 Late-flowering bulbous genus of which sarniensis is the Guernsey lily (6) 3 Theatrical cry of acclaim and an intense red chrysanthemum (5) 4 Tall, upright member of the allium family emblematic of Wales (4) 5 Evergreen perennial ‘wedding flower’ - - - - - - - - sonchifolia (7) 10 Arabic republic nominally associated with coniferous Cedrus libani (7) 11 Composite organism of algae and fungi often found on bark or rock (6) 13 ‘Forest - - - - -’, name of a popular pieris with fiery young red shoots (5) 14 Botanical term suggesting ‘black’ as in henbane Hyoscyamus - - - - - (5) 16 Reverberation or a name given to a recent series of red-hot pokers (4)