PUZZLES & PRIZES

Test your gardening knowledge with our brain teasers this month!

CLUES ACROSS

1 Bloom colour of Lilium candidum, Madonna lily (5) 4 ‘Ben - - - - -’; orange rock rose named after Britain’s highest mountain (5) 7 Angel’s - - - - - - - rods of the dierama genus with arching stems and drooping flowers (7) 8 Term for compact flower masses such as those of hydrangeas (5) 9 Sacking fibre derived from Asian plants of the corchorus genus (4) 10 Genus of perennials of which europaeus is common gorse (4) 14 Shade-tolerant heucheras commonly known as - - - - - bells (5) 17 Species of buddleja also called butterfly bush (7) 18 Sweet legume, Pisum sativum macrocarpon; - - - - - snap pea (5) 19 Arum maculatum or - - - - - and ladies, with orange autumn berries (5)

CLUES DOWN

1 ‘- - - - of Bath’, Canterbury Tales character and a pink English rose (4) 2 Any six-legged garden creature such as an earwig or ladybird (6) 3 Wide genus of heath or heathers with larger leaves than calluna (5) 4 - - - - - scented stock, Matthiola longipetala, fragrant at twilight (5) 5 Succulent evergreen, Aloe - - - - (4) 6 Historic English county with gardens at Arundel Castle and Standen (6) 9 & 11 Down Common name for perennial Polemonium caeruleum (6,6) 11 See 9 Down 12 Aegopodium podagraria, pernicious weed known as ground - - - - - (5) 13 - - - - - wood, satanic name for various species of osmanthus or toothed holly (5) 15 Naturally occurring circle of fungi on lawns; a fairy - - - - (4) 16 Love - - - - bleeding; bushy, tasselflowered Amaranthus caudatus (4)