Prize-winning crossword

Use the following answers to complete this quotation: ‘Gardening is a matter of 32 down 3 across 13 across up 27 down 32 down 28 across 18 across 9 across to it.’

ACROSS

3 Eager enjoyment or interest (10) 9 Second-hand (4) 10 Baby’s diaper (5) 12 Friend, chum (3) 13 Area of land held by lease, possibly ‘small’ (7) 16 Twelve months (4) 18 Obtains, receives (4) 20 Lilium tigrinum, the ‘___ lily’ (5) 22 Plants that live for only one 16 across (7) 23 Common name of the spring plant Primula veris (7) 25 ‘Granny ___’, variety of 7 down (5) 26 Taste of a crab 7 down? (4) 28 Give support to (4) 31 Those who die for beliefs (7) 34 Decay (3) 35 Large genus that includes the Michaelmas daisy (5) 37 Small stream in northern England and Scotland (4) 38 Atropa ___, also known as deadly nightshade (10)

DOWN

1 Rose plant, perhaps …(4) 2 … and ‘Arthur ___’, an award-winning Floribunda (4) 4 Person employed to look after a child (5) 5 Fruit of the wild rose (3) 6 Hebridean island (4) 7 Tree fruit in the Rose family (5) 8 … and its genus (5) 11 A long time, colloquially (4) 14 ‘___ Flow’, variety of iris sharing its name with Enya’s debut hit (7) 15 Piece of furniture with shelves above drawers and cupboards (7) 17 Tenant’s regular payment (4) 18 Lover of good food (7) 19 Early communications satellite, and Berberis frikartii variety (7) 21 Large tree branch (4) 24 Point at which something is at its best (4) 26 Woody plant (5) 27 Up to the time when (5) 29 Girl’s name (5) 30 ‘Royal ___’, variety of 7 and 8 down (4) 32 and 33 Elton John’s debut hit, in 1971 (4,4) 36 Also (3)