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1 Herbaceous plant in the pea family with tall spikes of colourful blooms (5) 7 Botanical term, as in Astrantia major
- - - - - , meaning ‘red’ (5)
8 - - - - - pelargonium; tender and more upright type of geranium (5) 9 Bronze-leaved cardinal flower - - - - - - -
cardinalis with deep red flowers (7) 10 Genus to which the Australian swan river daisy belongs (11)
13 See 19 Across
17 Ghana’s capital city near which the Aburi Botanical Gardens are sited (4)
18 Dracaena - - - - -, subtropical dragon tree native to the Canary Islands (5) 19 and 13 Across Popular low white bedder also known as Little Dorrit (5,7)
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1 - - - - daisy, an embroidery stitch or a commercial aster mix (4) 2 Pomegranate or - - - - - - granatum (6) 3 Restoration actress - - - - Gwynn and a pink autumn chrysanthemum (4)
4 Low-growing herbaceous rock cress genus bearing white flowers (6)
5 - - - - Ram – 18th-century plantsman sharing his name with Cain’s brother (4)
6 ‘Crystal - - - - - -’, annual bedding and basket cultivar of 9 Across (6)
10 Anemone - - - - - - or wood anemone often naturalised under trees (6)
11 Name by which the herb Hyssopus officinalis is commonly known (6)
12 Eurasian salad leaf plant known botanically as Atriplex hortensis (6)
15 Twelve-month period in which an annual completes its life cycle (4)
16 Camellia japonica cultivar named after the Red Planet (4)
16 ‘- - - -’s Red Lady’, dwarf barberry with purple/red foliage (4)