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CLUES ACROSS

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)

CLUES DOWN

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)

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