Crossword

ACROSS

7 Mrs Perón’s small, compact pampas grass (5)

8 Coneflower member of Aster family – ie a chance arrangement (9)

10 Love affair with this named early flowering yellow crocus? (7) 11 Partly opened eglantine, say (7) 12 Who’s tastefully holding the plantain lily genus? (5)

14/21 down Common name for this early spring-flowering bulb – from the Netherlands, occurs all over the place (5,6) 16 Possess some yellow narcissi (3) 17 Genus of Californian poppy – Liz chose cash alternatively (12)

22/26 down Ruddy arachnid, a mite annoying in the greenhouse! (3,6)

23 Small palm: Edinburgh’s Botanic Garden has 200-year-old one… a balsa sort (5)

25 Series of bright-coloured cyclamen – produces intense light beam! (5)

27 Genus of lemon balm herb – as is elm, oddly (7)

29 Caption about a cactus dahlia and defunct US car brand (7)

31 Always envious for a plant that doesn’t shed its leaves (9)

32 Ashes, say, and what they might become if burnt down? (5)

DOWN

1 Eden Project’s domed plant enclosures (6)

2 A Viburnum x bodnantense at daybreak? (4)

3 Withdraw, we hear, to repair lawn’s bare patches (6) 4 Tips I’ve removed from endives (4) 5 Genus of ‘pincushion flower’ – so a basic sort (8)

6 Evergreen shrub of barberry family – in Britain and in Asia (7)

7 Hearty sort of taste attributed to eg beetroot (6)

9 Nelson’s first Aruncus whose leaves turn red in autumn (7) 13 Hairy plant-louse, woolly ___ (5) 15 Woman’s nut-producing tree of

Corylus genus (5) 18 Genus of plants resembling miniature hollyhocks – turns Alice sad (8)

19 Term of endearment for vegetable garden plant? (7) 20 Classic cooking apple cultivar (7) 21 See 14 across 24 George Russell bred the modern form of these spiky flowers (6) 26 See 22 across 28 Herb of the Salvia genus (4) 30 Mad for certain tree fruits? (4)