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6 Lax tender evergreen shrubs also known as Australian fuchsia (6)

7 Shrubby perennial, - - - - vera, best grown as a houseplant in the UK (4)

8 - - - - root, common growth-stunting fungal disease of brassicas (4)

9 Broad genus of plants embracing onions, chives, garlic and leeks (6)

10 The - - - - - flower, country name for Ageratum houstonianum (5)

12 - - - - - cedar, conifer native to the Moroccan mountains of that name (5)

15 Genus that includes Mexican cigar plant with its orange-red blooms (6)

17 ‘Victor - - - -’, Les Misérables author and late-flowering purple clematis (4)

19 Rose family genus also known as avens (4)

20 Urtica dioica or invasive common stinging - - - - - - (6)

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1 Growing medium that might be clay, sand, silt, loam, peat or chalk (4)

2 White-flowering plant of the mustard family also known as rock cress (6)

3 Oriental country whose national flower is the chrysanthemum (5)

4 Rosa ‘Pope John - - - - II’, white hybrid tea rose cultivar (4)

5 - - - - - - coronopifolia, creeping annual also called brass buttons (6)

11 Bay - - - - - - or Laurus nobilis from which Roman wreaths were often fashioned (6)

13 Largest French Polynesian island and New Guinea impatiens cultivar (6)

14 - - - - - indica or Indian shot having leaves like banana plants (5)

16 Industrial - - - -, plant of the Cannabaceae family cultivated for its bast fibre (4)

18 Colour of the ‘rods’ of flowers born on solidago plants (4)