Puzzles and prizes
Test your gardening knowledge with our brain teasers this month!
Enter our crossword and wordsearch to win gardening goodies
ClueS ACroSS
1 - - - - in summer, spreading ground cover, Cerastium tomentosum (4) 3 Genus to which poisonous thorn apple weed belongs (6) 7 Hydrangea type similar to mophead but with central fertile buds (7) 8 Conifer genus embracing larches (5) 9 Aromatic perennial culinary herb used in Mediterranean sauces (5) 11 Taxonomic rank of plants between phylum or division and order (5) 13 Plant - - - - - ‘major’ or ‘minor’ – commonly known as periwinkle (5) 15 Name popularly given to cottage garden verbascum (7) 16 ‘Gardener’s Delight’ is a large cherry cultivar of this greenhouse fruit (6) 17 Vegetable that comes in French, runner or broad forms (4)
ClueS DowN
1 Alpinia zerumbet, ornamental of Zingiberaceae family also called - - - - - ginger (5) 2 wide genus that includes hybrid haastii, daisy bush (7) 4 ‘royal - - - - -’, pale pink pelargonium named after June race meeting (5) 5 love - - - - -, old name for 16 across, once considered an aphrodisiac (5) 6 Common name for a flowering plant of the linum genus (4) 10 China’s longest river whose basin supports the handkerchief tree (7) 11 ‘Bressingham - - - - -’, red hot poker cultivar and a long-tailed celestial object orbiting the sun (5) 12 richly scented Hesperis matronalis, known also as - - - - - rocket (5) 13 Any grape-like plant whose twisting, climbing stems need support (4) 14 Quaking - - - - -, native deciduous uK tree, Populus tremula (5) november crossword solution Across: 1 Moss, 4 Cotula, 7 Mentha, 8 Isle, 9 Betty, 11 Stock, 12 Azara, 14 Peach, 17 obwan, 18 Athene, 20 Damask, 21 Pear. down: 2 oxeye, 3 Set, 4 Crab, 5 Thistle, 6 lilac, 10 Torenia, 13 Zebra, 15 Canna, 16 Bark, 19 Hip. January solutions in our March issue conGrAtulAtions to our winners! November crossword: Monika Butler, Mrs C S Dawes, Doreen Mills, raphael Patrice, Jennifer Pritchard, Jude Singleton and Margaret Terry win a Design Your Garden Toolkit. November wordsearch: Mrs C Kember wins a £50 Hayloft voucher