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6 Classical musical piece or a hardy strawberry cultivar (6)

7 Stone fruit known botanically as

Prunus domestica (4)

8 Pile into which compost is gathered (4) 9 Salad plant – genus raphanus – grown as a peppery tuber (6)

10 Broad-leaved perennial of which

sieboldiana is a much-grown variegated species (5)

12 Trailing, prickly stem typical of a blackberry or some roses (5)

15 - - - - - - oil plant – name usually given to Ricinus communis (6)

17 To prepare seed potatoes for planting by encouraging sprouting (4)

19 Little hut for potting or for putting up tired gardening feet (4)

20 Dandelion-llke genus, known as hawksbeard, of which rubra is a tolerable pink species (6)

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1 - - - - in a mist, annual Nigella damascena (4)

2 Edithcolea grandis, commonly called Persian - - - - - -, of African origin (6)

3 Delicate biennial or pèrennial often known as a beesblossom (5)

4 Informal term for a ‘King Edward’ or ‘Maris Piper’ (4)

5 Country nominally associated with the rampant ‘vine’ of the fallopia genus (6)

11 Name sometimes given to mountain spinach or Atriplex hortensis (6)

13 Sweet - - - - - -, the white or purpleflowering hesperis (6)

14 Hebe hybrid ‘- - - - - Kelly’, named for Hollywood’s Monaco princess (5)

16 - - - - tips or Layia platyglossa with white-edged yellow blooms in spring (4)

18 Genus that includes the South African corn lily (4)