Puzzles and prizes

Test your gardening knowledge with our brain teasers this month!

Enter our crossword and wordsearch to win Protek woodstain vouchers or a £50 Hayloft voucher

CLUES ACROSS

6 Capsicum annuum, bell - - - - - -, hot-tasting greenhouse plant (6) 7 - - - - maculatum, cuckoo pint or lords-and-ladies, with red berries (4) 8 Any troublesome plant growing where it’s not wanted (4) 9 Yellow-flowered waterside perennial, - - - - - - palustris or marsh marigold (6) 10 Common name for biennial Salvia sclarea, with colourful bracts (5) 12 - - - - - Bernhardt, French actress who lends name to pink frilly peony (5) 15 Cydonia oblonga, pink-blossomed tree grown for its yellow fruit (6) 17 - - - - typhina, stag’s horn sumach, with red-orange autumn foliage (4) 19 Residual stem piece at the base of a cutting from a woody plant (4) 20 Fish-eating UK bird lending its name to a pink-fringed white penstemon (6)

CLUES DOWN

1 New Zealand genus named after the Greek goddess of youth (4) 2 Chlorophytum comosum, houseplant with an arachnid-like form (6) 3 Phlox subulata cultivar whose name echoes the hymn ‘Amazing - - - - -’ (5) 4 Lumpy, unsightly growth on plant caused by an insect or mite (4) 5 Broad Mexican genus that includes the species ignea or cigar plant (6) 11 Glabrous tree or large shrub, bay - - - - - - or Laurus nobilis (6) 13 - - - - - - belladonna, the deadly one of the nightshade family (6) 14 County of S W England boasting RHS Garden Rosemoor (5) 16 Lily of the - - - - or African - - - -, agapanthus named for the world’s longest river (4) 18 Botanical name for the genus commonly known as gorse or furze (4)

JUNE’S CROSSWORD SOLUTION

Across: 1 Sheba, 3 Plane, 6 Gentian, 7 Broom, 9 Tree, 12 Lime, 13 Arkle, 16 Lobelia, 17 Susan, 18 Smoke. Down: 1 Sage, 2 Alison, 3 Pink, 4 Admiral, 5 Elodea, 8 Ramsons, 10 Elymus, 11 Arabis, 14 Alan, 15 Cape. Find August answers in our October issue

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNERS!

June crossword: Ann Cubitt wins a Letterbox Gifts Gardener’s Gift Set. June wordsearch: Maxine Maddox wins a £50 Hayloft voucher.