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1/26 Common name for agapanthus (7,4) 5 Regal name of a toad lily with maroon-spotted white flowers (7) 9/8 down Bergenia named after this plantsman … produces rich items (4,5)

10/17 down A small rhododendron and German spa town (5-5)

12 Name of melon with salmon-pink flesh – partly semi-rigid (4) 13 Forget-me-not genus (8) 14 Indian prince’s yellow/maroon bi-coloured iris (5)

16 Evergreen flowering shrubs: ‘Pagei’ is a low-growing form (5) 18 Grape ____ or muscari (8) 20 Hardy diascia with deep pink flowers – reverie (8)

22 ___ lily, genus Clivia, popular houseplant from South Africa (5)

23 A restorative eg or plants and gardeners! (5) 24 Lilacs in grassy disorder (8) 26 See 1 across 28 Castle ditches … almost ruined when last of topsoil removed (5)

29 Hard-necked garlic variety – spurned by Narcissus (4)

30 Where roots and plant stems meet (6)

31 Mark left by fallen piece of foliage (4,4) DOWN

2 Genus of yellow-flowering spring shrubs – soft hairy sort! (9)

3 Type of perpetually flowering carnations: ‘Ancient South Americans’ (5)

4 Genus of the strawberry tree – somewhat dear, but useful (7)

6 Genus of bergamot and bee balm – a random hot-potch (7)

7 Regret a bitter-scented shrub with irritating sap (3) 8 See 9 across

11 Genus of tufted hair grass – Midas’s peach, perhaps (11)

15 A node – of a marijuana smoke? (5) 17 See 10 across 19 Perennial with a garlic smell … ruined a balti – ugh! (9)

21 The ‘pineapple lily’ genus is found in EU co mistakenly (7)

22 Smallest of the Greatorex-bred snowdrops – reproduced as resin (7)

23 Shrub rose with almost-single white flowers – one making an effort (5)

25 Turnips, according to the Scots, served with haggis (5)

27 Evergreen tree, popular with topiarists (3)