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Test your gardening knowledge with our brain teasers this month!

Planter in our crossword comp this month, or 50 snowdrops and Hayloft vouchers worth £30

1 South African beauty, zantedeschia or - - - - - lily (5)

3 Annual Eschscholzia californica, also known as Californian - - - - - (5)

6 Genus to which succulents living stones and pebble plants belong (7)

7 “- - - - - showers bring May flowers” – old adage of the spring gardener (5)

9 US state lending its name to a buckeye of the aesculus genus (4)

12 The - - - - Islands, three orchid and gentian-rich isles in Galway Bay (4)

13 Botanical term denoting ‘red’ as in Escallonia or Quercus - - - - - (5)

16 Perennial genus of which purpurea is known as purple toadflax (7)

17 Asian republic of which the sacred lotus is the national flower (5)

18 Musical maestro Sir - - - - - John has been honoured with namesake dahlia and orchid cultivars (5) CLUES DOWN

1 - - - - frame, unheated glass structure used to bring on young plants (4)

2 Pheasant’s eye genus with small bowl-shaped, red or yellow flowers (6)

3 Small bouquet of cut flowers that may be seen at a wedding (4)

4 Carnivorous - - - - - - - plant of Sarracenia genus with deep, jugshaped ‘traps’ (7)

5 Common form of perennial Achillea millefolium with flat-headed flowers (6)

8 - - - - - - - egg plant, country name for annual Limnanthes douglasii (7)

10 America’s Aloha State whose flower is the yellow hibiscus (6)

11 Ancient fruit – Cydonia oblonga – grown for its use in jams and jellies (6)

14 Salix - - - -, white willow named for its pale silver leaf undersides (4)

15 Synonym for daybreak and a subtle pale pink-flowered clematis (4)