Prize crossword
Solve the clues and fill in the grid, then send it to us – you could win a Heathcote & Ivory Gardeners’ Hamper! Entry form is overleaf
Enter this month’s crossword and you could win one of six Heathcote & Ivory Gardeners’ Bountiful Hampers worth £15!
Offering a bumper harvest of gardeners’ favourites, this handsome hamper is brimming with with gifts for gardeners including a pair of trusty gardening gloves; new hedgerow hand cream (100ml) with sunflower seed oil, elderberry, rhubarb and blackberry extract; new rhubarb hand salve (50ml) with aloe,
chamomile, rhubarb extracts, vitamins and honey; and a hessian bag of muscle soak (100ml) of invigorating eucalyptus bath salts. It’s the perfect treat for busy gardeners – or would make a fantastic gift for a green-fingered friend.
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CLUES ACROSS
1 Genus of deciduous tree commonly known as mulberry (5) 3 ‘- - - - - Charms’, Dianthus barbatus cultivar usually grown as an annual (5) 6 Botanical term for ‘creeping’ used frequently with ajuga species (7) 7 Root vegetable sometimes called a neep or ‘yellow turnip’ (5) 9 Mirabilis jalapa or marvel of - - - -, trumpet-bloomed tropical American plant that opens in the afternoon (4) 12 - - - - oak, alternative name for holly oak or Quercus ilex (4) 13 Vicia faba, legume commonly known as fava or - - - - - bean (5) 16 Perennial alpine genus that includes rediviva and cotyledon species (7) 17 Stachys byzantina or - - - -’- ears with silvery felty foliage (5) 18 Zodiac sign of the scales or former name of purple monarda ‘Balance’ (5)
CLUES DOWN
1 Orange Crocosmia crocosmiiflora cultivar named after the red planet (4) 2 Beer and lemonade drink or a tawnypink semi-cactus dahlia cultivar (6) 3 Inspired by its scent, term for whiteflowered rambler Rosa moschata (4) 4 Giant-leaved herbaceous perennial sometimes called Chilean rhubarb (7) 5 Genus of trees known as cedars (6) 8 White and pink clematis ‘Princess Kate’ makes a perfect partner for purple-flowered ‘Prince - - - - - - -’ (7) 10 Chocolate cosmos ‘Chocamocha’ is also sold under the name of French fashion icon ‘Coco - - - - - -’ (6) 11 Garden hand tool used for digging small planting holes (6) 14 Lychnis - - - - jovis, greyish-leaved agrostemma with rosy-pink flowers (4) 15 Latin term for ‘dwarf’ as in umbrella plant Darmera peltata ‘- - - -’ (4)