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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)

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