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CLUES ACROSS

1 Botanical name of the evergreen shrub often called spotted laurel (6) 4 Orchard fruit of which ‘Blue Tit’ and ‘Victoria’ are popular cultivars (4) 8 Somerset gorge lending its name to a fragrant perennial pink (7) 9 Japanese capital – site of the Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden (5) 10 Pink-flowered Linaria purpurea cultivar known as ‘Canon - - - -’ (4)

11 River of Stratford and a bushy, spreading rose cultivar (4)

16 Daphne - - - - - sweet-smelling, brightberried shrub such as ‘Aureomarginata’ (5) 18 Colourful South African genus often called twinspur (7) 19 Long-handled garden tool used to break down soil into a finer tilth (4)

20 Plants of the erica genus or the moorlands they sometimes cover (6)

CLUES DOWN

1 ‘- - - - May’, mother’s sister or yellowflowered Sisyrinchium striatum cultivar (4)

2 One of the flower clusters seen hanging from a birch tree in late winter (6)

3 ‘Eggs and - - - - -’ name given to yellow and red flowered Lotus corniculatus (5)

5 Yellow English marigold ‘- - - - Godiva’, Coventry’s famed horsewoman (4)

6 Pond’s shallow edge where maybe marsh marigolds might be planted (6)

7 Hardy frilly pink ‘mum’ named after

‘- - - - Gwynn’ mistress of Charles II (4)

10 ‘Golden - - - - - -’ late floury maincrop potato (6)

12 Viola odorata or sweet - - - - - - (6)

13 - - - - garden – stony situation for saxifrage, iberis and the like (4)

14 Dry white Italian wine made from ‘Garganega’ grapes (5)

15 Outermost layer of trees and other woody plants (4) 17 Social insects said to farm aphids for their honeydew (4)