CLUES ACROSS

1 Ubiquitous spring flower of the narcissus genus (8)

6 Operatic solo and a sorbus species, common whitebeam of gardens (4)

7 Rosa canina or dog - - - -, hip-bearing hedgerow scrambler (4)

8 American swamp lily or lizard’s - - - -, a pond marginal Saururus cernuus (4)

9 Sea lavender genus often cut for use in dried flower arrangements (7)

12 - - - - - - - flower, common name for gaillardia (7)

15 UK 20th-century plantswoman and garden designer - - - - Chatto (4)

17 Name broadly given to the heather genus calluna (4)

18 ‘Geisha - - - -’, popular annual double-flowered orange calendula (4)

19 Annual delphinium inclined to selfseed freely (8)

CLUES DOWN

1 ‘- - - - - Red Lady’, dwarf Berberis thunbergii atropurpurea cultivar (5) 2 Compact Calendula officinalls

cultivar ‘- - - - - - Gitana’, a carnival of colour (6)

3 F1 hybrid Brussels sprout sharing its name with an order of Greek architecture (5)

4 ‘Café au - - - -’, striking giant creamywhite-flowered dahlia cultivar (4) 5 Lilyturf, evergreen perennial of which muscari and spicata are species (7)

10 - - - - - - - fournieri, annual beauty sometimes called wishbone flower (7) 11 Hooker - - - - - - common name for spidery yellow-flowered perennials (6) 13 Propagate by slitting and pinning shoots attached to parent stock (5) 14 Tigridia pavonia or - - - - - flower, exotic-looking summer bulb (5)

16 - - - - cherry tree, Prunus serrulata,

with young bronze foliage (4)