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ACROSS

1 Tall, woody grass: its genera include

and Fargesia (6)

5 Flower of a fruiting tree, etc (7)

9/28 Mollycoddle plaything… name for a pink Bergenia cultivar (4,4)

An allium with half-round purple flowers and city of Florida (5)

11 These vegetables are flowers when sweet (4)

12 A bi-coloured brown/yellow rudbeckia – launched into space in 1957! (7)

13 Roots ___ a plant firmly in soil (6) 15 ___ cyanea, ‘Cigar Plant’ – part of kingcup, he admires (6)

17 Appropriate name for this earliest of tulips – ‘Firth Set’ perhaps (3,5)

18 White daisy-like flower from NZ… sort of a lime (sic) (8)

21 See 5 down

22 The genus of water plantain – makes salami! (6)

23 A white Rhodanthe daisy with yellow/brown centre – ‘White Faced Clown’ (7)

25 Eg plane (4)

27 Takes care of (5)

28 See 9 across

30 NZ plants with burr-like flowers – doctor removed from dracaenas (7) 31 Deadly nightshade genus – a part, possibly, taking in oxygen (6)

DOWN

2 Orchid genus synonymous with Brassia… found in Madagascar (3)

3 A plum-coloured dahlia – a boy transplanted on top of undergrowth (5)

4 Royal fern genus – arranged as on mud (7)

5/21 across Gaillardia’s common name – bed covering blossom (7,6)

6 I loved a wild… juicy plum-shaped variety of tomato (7)

7 A plant’s vital juices (3)

8 Spiraea- like plant with fern-like leaves, genus Filipendula (11)

12 Genus of ‘skullcap’ plant – it’s a cure-all oddly! (11)

14 A fragrant, burnt-orange tulip: ‘Egyptian City’ (5)

16 Decomposed organic material in soil (5)

19 Austere name of an early fruiting, tasty blueberry (7)

20 General name for plants popular in rockeries (7)

21 Scented plant in the Iris family – confused faeries! (7)

24 Anemone blanda var. rosea ‘___’ – partly Aspidistra, darling! (5)

26 Sambucus nigra f. porphyrophylla ‘Black Lace’ or ‘___’ – initially every variety accepted (3)

29 Eg cut back a tree (3)

SOLUTIONS TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE’S CROSSWORD

Across: 1 Colutea 5 Mirage 8/10 Knotweed 9 Ingot 11 Myosotis 12 Domino 14/24 Summer hyacinth 16 Air plant 18 Torpedo 21 Punica 22 St Paul 26 Dior 28 Plait 29 Elan 30 Needle 31 Tamella.

Down: 1 Candytuft 2 Lotus 3 Twister 4 Augusta 5 Matador 6 Row 7 Green

13 Milan 15 Maria 17 Nicotiana 19 Eclipse 20 Oxheart 21 Phantom 23 Twine 25/27 Ideal Red.