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6 Mespilus germanica, small whiteflowered tree with fruit best eaten over-ripe (6)
7 Botanical name for the olive genus of Mediterranean trees and shrubs (4)
8 Calla or - - - - lily, tuberous, hardier form of Zantedeschia aethiopica (4)
9 Garden - - - - - - solutions are on offer from Sara Edwards (6)
10 Common name of Tanacetum vulgare, perennial with pungent yellow button blooms (5)
12 ‘Fawlty’ herb with green or purple leaves (5)
15 Tall, handsome, saucer-flowered Malva sylvestris known as common - - - - - - (6)
17 Mr Titchmarsh, presenter of TV gardening and Classic FM shows (4)
19 Colour of the medal awarded to the very finest Chelsea exhibitors (4)
20 Old botanical name and synonym for hosta or plantain lily (6)
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1 Pink rhododendron and double-flowered sunflower ‘Teddy - - - -’ (4)
2 Wide genus of plants including - - - - - -
repens, the unwelcome couch grass (6)
3 ‘The - - - - -’, cultivar of the pearl bush,
Exochorda macrantha (5)
4 Flowerless plant that gardeners rake out of their lawn and use to line hanging baskets (4)
5 Symphyotrichum novi - - - - - -, American cousin of S. novae-angliae (6)
11 Longest S. American river after which lily Eucharis grandiflora is named (6)
13 New Zealand burr or prostrate, smallleaved perennial - - - - - - microphylla (6)
14 Migratory bird that’s likely to have returned to its native Africa by now (5)
16 ‘- - - - Hamilton’, crocosmia given its name from Emma, Nelson’s mistress (4)
18 Term descriptive of soil with a pH value below seven (4)