Puzzles and prizes

Test your gardening knowledge with our brain teasers this month!

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CLUES ACROSS

1 Curl of soil pushed to the surface by a burrowing earthworm (4)

3 Herbaceous perennial, - - - - - - daisy, or Leucanthemum superbum (6)

7 - - - - - - - bonariensis, perennial with tall purple flower spikes (7)

8 ‘Eggs and - - - - -’, English breakfast and a yellow/red crocosmia cultivar (5)

9 Adam’s needle genus with stiff sword-shaped leaves (5)

11 Common name given to a heathland plant of the cytisus genus (5) 13 Mountain ash tree (5)

15 Galanthus - - - - - - -, common snowdrop (7)

16 Clump-forming foliage plants also known as plantain lilies (6)

17 Informal name for a tuber with cultivars such as ‘Estima’ and ‘Wilja’ (4)

CLUES DOWN

1 Ceratonia siliqua, Mediterranean tree with edible pods sometimes used as a cocoa substitute (5)

2 Former name of grey-leaved, yellowflowered brachyglottis shrubs (7)

4 - - - - - Wheatcroft, Nottingham-born rose-grower of the 20th century (5) 5 Small evergreen tree genus of which microphylla is a box-leaf type (5) 6 Stratford’s river lending its name to daylily cultivar ‘- - - - Crystal Rose’ (4) 10 Common name for meadow and cottage garden flower

Primula veris (7)

11 Long seat often positioned as a resting place with a pretty garden view (5)

12 - - - - - sylvestris, common species of the mallow genus (5)

13 Floral emblem of England (4)

14 - - - - - ladies – name given to Colchicum autumnale denuded of early leaves (5)