Crossword and how to buy back issues

ACROSS

1 See 26 across 4 Progressive death starting from tip of shoot (7)

9 Bulbous underground stem of eg crocus (4) 10 Laurel’s partner resistant to cold (5) 11 It’s a soil aerator, naturally! (4) 12 Alpine plant with trumpet-shaped blue flowers (7) 14 Green prune I cooked (6) 15 Genus of black bryony – in pot, a must (5)

16 Globe thistle genus – nice shop variety (8)

18 Would, we hear, hurry for grasslike plant in the Luzula genus (8) 20 Thick, spreading, like a shrub (5) 21 As roots steady a plant… on arch, perhaps (6)

23 “Red leaf-stalks”, as stage actors may murmur (7)

25 Grass-like plant in Poaceae family – partly free-draining (4)

26/1 across Kew Garden’s 18th-century Chinese-inspired building (5,6)

27 Glasgow pop singer’s dwarf, clump-forming lupin (4)

28 Vigorous, dark-flowered lavender – which is restful in the afternoon (6)

29 Removes eg leaves from stems (6)

DOWN

1 Point of a garden fork? (5) 2 Resin exuded eg by leaves of

Cistus ladanifer (3) 3 Showy tuberous plants, often stored over winter (7)

5 Non-climbing Hedera eg H. helix ‘Erecta’, and common pub name (3,4)

6 Looped knot of ribbons, er, makes a leafy garden shelter (5)

7 Common field plant, scarletflowered Papaver rhoeas (4,5)

8 Name of a pale-mauve clematis – resident at Highgrove! (6,7)

13 Damon returned a bumpercropping dwarf French bean (5)

15 Like blackberry Rubus fruticosus – fruit-picking thus painless? (9)

17 The tupelo tree genus – in Tony’s sandpit (5)

19 Erect like an iris’s standard petals – honest! (7)

20 Dwarf rhododendron with grey-blue flowers and small garden bird (4,3)

22 Equivocate about a bushy boundary (5)

24 Swollen underground stems – they light up! (5)

27 Flower garland’s partly edible, ideally (3)