Crossword

ACROSS

7 Potato with a nutty taste – odd tater! (5)

8 Soil Al dug roughly for spiky-flowered plant (9) 10 Use a mister spray? (7) 11 Eg plant of Nyssa or

Eucalyptus genus (3,4) 12 Onion relatives – house ones are sempervivums! (5)

14 Fixed, small onion bulb ready for planting (3)

15 Eg Cordyline australis leaf, with its slender, pointed shape (5)

16 Saintpaulia’s common name – strangely inactive flora (7,6)

21 Proposals: partly divide asparagus (5)

22 Throw away compost container? (3) 23 Root out (3,2) 25 Japanese winter pumpkin – leaders of Kew are breeding organic cucurbit ‘Halloween Art’ (7) 27 Eg a runner bean wigwam (7) 29 Evening primrose genus – other one a modification (9)

30 A plant that’s a (usually substandard) variation from the norm (5)

DOWN

1 Genus of the native primrose and cowslip (7)

2 Stop work to get a cutting to root (6) 3 Enthusiasm for orange peel? (4) 4 Cabbage root attacker? (6) 5 Scots pine, say, by start of May is not easily moved (4)

6 Tuscan city’s large-fruiting, late-season strawberry (8)

8 Spanish gorse genus – gets in a mess! (7)

9 Terrible weeds start to suffocate turnip-like vegetables (6)

13 Uses pruning shears lightly – turns all the way around (5)

15/24 Old PM’s flavoursome old strawberry variety (5,6) 17 Common name for Erigeron

karvinskianus – distorted bean leaf (8) 18 Feltz’s first crimson-flowered

Parrotia persica (7) 19 Genus of maidenhair tree makes king go mad! (6)

20 As a tiger lily’s petals are observed? (7)

22 Beatles’ heartless name for Peter, RHS medal-winning rose grower (6) 24 See 15 down 26 Reduces price of prunes? (4) 28 Trim small bits from fruit, it’s said (4)