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1 Colourful common term for various species of dianthus (4)

3 Generic name for the plant generally known as the spider flower (6) 8 Bedding or basket annual of which ‘Night Sky’ is a novel purple and white cultivar (7) 9 - - - - - palustris, genus of aquatic plants also called the water arum (5)

11 Tree of the tilia genus called the linden in parts of Europe (4)

14 Type of bean with a nominal connection to the capital of Peru (4)

15 - - - - - scented stock – sweet-smelling species of the genus matthiola (5) 18 Popular bedding plant such as trailing ‘Cambridge Blue’ (7)

20 Fuller’s - - - - - -, dipsacus having flower heads within hooked bracts (6) 21 Lightest, most porous constituent of good garden soils (4)

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1 Dutchman’s - - - - vine, Aristolochia macrophylla (4)

2 Fruit produced by the filbert tree (3) 4 Well-blanced soil of sand, silt and clay (4) 5 Flightless African bird or plant otherwise known as the shuttlecock fern (7) 6 Springtime Christian festival lending its name to Lilium longiflorum (6)

7 Wide genus of plants that includes the britannica species, also know as British yellowhead or meadow fleabane (5) 10 Coastal thrift, - - - - - - - maritima (7)

12 ‘- - - - - -’s Gold’, Erica arborea or tree heath cultivar that shares its name with Queen Victoria’s consort (6) 13 Early-flowering clematis cultivar named after the daughter of Tantalus (5) 16 Distinctive colour of the Himalayan or Tibetan poppy flower (4)

17 Series of selected perennial lupins,

‘- - - - of Nobles’ (4)

19 Poetic term for a grassy, rural English meadow (3)