Prize crossword
Solve the clues and fill in the grid, then send it to us – you could win an Elho Pure Raindrop rain barrel! The entry form is overleaf Enter this month’s crossword and you could win a stylish Elho Pure Raindrop Rain Barrel worth £245! The beautiful Pure Raindrop from Elho has won several leading design prizes – and its user-friendly features make it easy to harvest and utilise rainwater. The integrated watering can automatically fills up when it rains, and you can easily refill the can using the tap at the bottom of the barrel. When the rain barrel is full, any excess water just drains away via the drainpipe. You can even attach a hosepipe to the Pure Raindrop. With a capacity of 70 litres, the teardropshaped barrel is compatible with all conventional cylindrical drainpipes (7.5cm max diameter) and it’s easy to attach. l For information about Elho products visit www.elho.com or Facebook/elho
CLUES ACROSS
1 Bud of Mediterranean bush Capparis spinosa pickled for kitchen use (5) 4 Wide genus of which benjamina is called ‘weeping fig’ (5) 6 Protea-related tree and shrub genus sometimes known as Australian honeysuckle (7) 7 Term used of soil with a pH value under 7 (4) 8 King - - - - - - V, 20th-century UK monarch and cultivar of both hydrangea and penstemon (6) 11 ‘- - - - - -’ of Llandaff, popular bright red dahlia with very dark foliage (6) 12 Round underground storage organ of a plant such as tulips (4) 15 Common name for eucalyptus and various other related genera (3,4) 16 Japanese angelica tree, Aralia - - - - -, especially prized in its variegated form (5) 17 Photinia fraseri ‘Red - - - - -’, cultivar with the leaf colour of a red-breasted bird (5)
CLUES DOWN
1 - - - or arum lily, tuberous herbaceous or evergreen zantedeschia (5) 2 Rhododendron ‘Mary - - - - - - -’, named for fictional children’s nanny (7) 3 Astrantia major ‘- - - - Wedding’ – a 40th anniversary masterwort? (4) 4 Culinary herb Foeniculum vulgare grown for its aniseed tingle (6) 5 Cane or post to support a plant (5) 9 Fruity, acidic-stalked perennial, Rheum rhabarbarum (7) 10 Evergreen Australian fuchsia shrub that includes ‘Dusky Bells’ (6) 11 Common name for purple-flowered ground-cover plant Ajuga reptans (5) 13 ‘Red - - - - -’, Japanese blood grass cultivar and nickname of fighter pilot von Richthofen (5)
14 Blechnum spicant – the hard or, especially in US, - - - - - fern (4)