PUZZLES & PRIZES

Test your gardening knowledge with our brain teasers this month!

CLUES ACROSS

1 Sugary fluid secreted within flower cells to encourage pollinators (6) 4 Red planet and a crimson-blooming

Camellia japonica cultivar (4)

8 Houttuynia - - - - - - - low shrub with variegated heart-shaped leaves (7) 9 County said to be ‘the garden of England’ (4)

10 White-green flowered Astrantia

- - - - - or greater masterwort (5)

13 Rhus typhina or stag’s horn - - - - -; small tree (5)

15 Compact Manchurian lilac Syringa pubescens patula ‘- - - - Kim’ (4) 17 Red - - - - - - - -, butterfly often seen feeding on buddleias (7)

19 - - - - de lion, French origin of the English word for a dandelion (4) 20 Spreading blue-flowered gentian sage or Salvia - - - - - - (6)

CLUES DOWN

1 Symphyotrichum - - - - belgii, a Michaelmas daisy (4)

2 Perennial Polemonium - - - - - - ‘Apricot Delight’ (7)

3 Euphorbia ‘- - - - - Rainbow’ takes its name from a Berkshire racecourse (5)

5 Daylily ‘- - - Gardner’ is named for a 20th-century Hollywood actress (3)

6 Rich rose-flowering hibiscus ‘Starry - - - - - - Night’ (6)

7 Autumn-berried - - - - maculatum also known as lords-and-ladies (4)

11 Popular scented climber for summer (officinale) or winter (nudiflorum) (7)

12 - - - - - - series of canna cultivars such as ‘Madeira’ or ‘Tenerife’ (6)

14 Bulb-like underground reproductive structure such as that of the crocus (4)

15 Genus of herbaceous perennials and annuals known as mallows (5)

16 Love - - - - bleeding, the red-plumed annual Amaranthus caudatus (4)

18 Clematis vitalba, traveller’s joy or old - - -’s beard (3)