Puzzles and prizes Win a memory game from Laurence King or a £50 voucher from Hayloft Plants

Test your gardening knowledge with our brain teasers this month!

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6 Spider flower. Half-hardy annual with pink, purple or white blooms (6) 7 Rudbeckia hirta, golden-yellow black - - - - susan of the sunflower family (4) 8 Bird’s - - - - fern, Asplenium nidus, with evergreen, leathery fronds (4) 9 Genus of dead nettles including ‘spotted’ maculatum species (6) 10 - - - - - aster of the callistephus genus, named after its oriental country of origin (5) 12 So-called Japanese sago palm or - - - - - revoluta; woody perennial (5) 15 - - - - - - flower or lady’s smock, Cardamine pratensis (6) 17 little evergreen shrub of the cistus genus, known as - - - - rose (4) 19 In the book of Genesis, the garden site tended by Adam and eve (4) 20 Plant genus of which sativus is the source of saffron (6)

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1 Flower colour common to shrubs such as ceanothus and ceratostigma (4) 2 - - - - - - lavender; clump-forming santolina with woolly, silvery leaves (6) 3 Campanula medium, biennials widely known as Canterbury - - - - - (5) 4 Herbaceous perennial such as ‘Mrs J Bradshaw’. Also called avens (4) 5 Monster of the herb border, giant fennel or - - - - - - communis (6) 11 Cynoglossum officinale, borage family member often called - - - - - tongue (6) 13 Common - - - - - - (Achillea millefolium) with flat clusters of daisy flowers (6) 14 Twitch or - - - - - grass, Elymus repens; invasive plant of lawns (5) 16 Cultivar of flowering currant, ‘- - - - edward VII’ (4) 18 - - - - root, fungal infection of many brassicas (4)

AUGUST CROSSWORD SOLUTION ACROSS: 1 Buds, 3 Knight, 7 lunaria, 8 Clone, 9 Alnus, 11 Alder, 13 Argus, 15 robinia, 16 london, 17 Cape. down: 1 Blanc, 2 Dogwood, 4 nonea, 5 Tears, 6 Blue, 10 nigella, 11 April, 12 ringo, 13 Alan, 14 Spice. October solutions in December issue

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNERS! August crossword: Carol lincoln wins a la Hacienda Stamford firepit. August wordsearch: Martin Allman wins a £50 Hayloft voucher