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ACROSS

1 Flower stalk element of Wakehurst embothrium (4)

4 Prickly shrub with tomato-like hips – or saguaros maybe! (4,6)

9 Ad spoilt with pics showing sap-sucking bug (6)

10 Fibrous grass Stipa tenacissima destroyed proteas (7) 11 Break an antirrhinum, in short (4) 13 Variegated thyme – arranged as art (5) 14 Pitcher in Inverewe rockery (4) 15 A cold associated with each reduced milfoil (8)

18 We sort out containers for vertical planting (6)

20 Wagered it’s how plants may be supported (6) 22 Sizeable gratuities for

Lonicera ‘__ __’, with compact new growth (4,4)

24 Garden designer Jinny removing centre from flower (4)

26 Part of a calyx – in glasshouse palm (5) 28 Sumach plant – cultivated rush (4) 30 Genus of sundew from grafted rose (rambler) (7)

31 Cytisus shrubs, useful to witches? (6) 33 Hank unties damaged plant with small bell-shaped flowers (10)

34 Trial a Hampshire chalk stream (4)

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2 Grow a plant up a wall, say, given time and wet weather (5)

3 Species of Cornus – mother’s in brief (3)

4 Description of plant growing in wasteland: “rue mixed with lard” (7)

5 Potential plants – possibly held in a bank at Kew (5)

6 Eg dig out and put shrub in new position (7)

7 Thorny shrub, genus Ulex – good sort of rose (5) 8 Sedum plant’s dreadful poor scent! (9)

12/32 down Transfer seedlings into individual containers (5,3) 16 Seed leaf ’s cold, yet no different (9) 17 Alan Titchmarsh conceals an insect (3)

19 An important element in a Japanese-style garden (5)

21 Had seen unusual, edible tropical tuber, Colocasia genus (7)

23 Coppelia composer’s large cupped narcissus (7)

25 Name of a Phormium group – indigenous to New Zealand (5)

27 Velvet-skinned stone fruit – penny, every single one! (5) 29 The elm genus (5) 32 See 12 down

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