Puzzles and prizes

Test your gardening knowledge with our brain teasers this month!

Win an Adam Frost Masterclass and Hayloft goodies in our competitions

CLUES ACROSS

6 ‘Lady - - - - - -’, naked 11th-century Coventry horsewoman and an orange hybrid calendula (6)

7 - - - - maculatum, poisonous perennial commonly known as cuckoopint (4)

8 Pre-Easter period that gives its name to the - - - - lily or wild daffodil (4) 9 Shrubby genus of which purpureus is the purple-flowered rock rose (6) 10 Viola-like, often wild flower sometimes called heartsease (5) 12 Mountain avens, eight-petalled alpine of the Rosaceae family (5) 15 A filbert or fruit of the hazel traditionally grown in Kent (6) 17 Colour of the medal awarded to the best of the best at Chelsea (4)

19 - - - - Bailey, UK comic and TV host after whom a tropical nepenthes hybrid is named (4)

20 ‘Powis - - - - - -’, artemesia cultivar with particularly silvery foliage (6)

CLUES DOWN

1 Amaranthus caudatus or - - - - lies bleeding with pendant red tassels (4) 2 Rhizomatous hardy genus – wild or fairy iris or butterfly plant (6) 3 Month said to come in like a lion and go out like a lamb (5)

4 Red planet and a crimson-flowered cultivar of Camellia japonica (4) 5 Evergreen shrub genus embracing spotted or Japanese laurel (6) 11 Genus of deciduous shrubs to which chokeberries belong (6)

13 Rosa - - - - - -, tough Asian hedging rose with pink flowers and reddish hips (6)

14 Brompton - - - - -, sweetly scented Matthiola incana (5)

16 See 18 Down 18 and 16 Down - - - - of the - - - -, name often given to agapanthus (4,4)