Crossword and how to buy back issues

ACROSS

1 Rain gently… a spade’s depth (4)

4 A golden rod with arching flower sprays for a pyrotechnic display! (9)

9 Genus of a white-flowering umbellifer – left out of mixed mulleins (7)

10 Sweet potato roots, er, put in garden containers (6)

11 Moist – initially damaging Ammi majus plants (4)

12 A sweet red-orange strawberry – ‘Adventurous Girl’ (5)

13 Garden designer Jinny__ “Limbo dancing? Not I!” (4)

14 A compact hosta with blue-grey leaves… happy and peaceful (7)

16 A means of weighing a bulb’s modified leaves? (6)

18 See 13 down

20 A classic red/white radish – and one of 4 across (8)

22 Enthusiasts… of trees with branches trained in a Y shape (4)

24 Imitating… a little lacecap in garden! (5)

25 Crataegus tree’s fruits (4)

26 Company’s total shares of… scented Matthiola plants? (6)

28 Grape hyacinth genus (7)

29 Genus of cornflower – provides a true cane (9)

30 Seed’s covering… part of Dianthus knappii (4)

DOWN

2 Almond-flavoured nut and name of white-flowering clematis with green centres (9)

3 Spring bulb is sadly pitiful, if left out (5)

4 A 3 down with pink frilled petals – ‘Pipe Dream’? (7)

5 It has funnel-shaped flowers and edible roots – scattered in a romp (7)

6 Shrivels – between a horse’s shoulder blades? (7)

7 Leaf’s main vein – Adam’s spare one? (3)

8 A fast-maturing Florence fennel – or I is wrong! (5)

13/18 An F1 courgette… makes a chocolate/cherry gateau (5,6)

15 Ladybirds initially seek out vegetables of onion genus (5)

17 Alpine plant, genus Leontopodium – one in weedless mess (9)

19 Umbellifer aka ‘deadly carrot’ – is a path affected? (7)

20 Clematis ‘____’, large-flowered lilacblue form, to gleam tremulously (7)

21 Princess who founded Kew Gardens in 1759… in Georgia, USA? (7)

23 A gazania with cream/red/yellow flowers, native of Mexico once (5)

25 Ericaceous shrub – needs warmth and hydrogen (5)

27 Container… contains ‘Adam’s Needle’, initially (3) Solutions to this month’s crossword will be printed next month

SOLUTIONS TO OCTOBER’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Tagetes 5 Squash 8 Tara 9 Amigo 11 Clusiana 13 Trowel 14 Odessa

16 Hokusai 18 Setaria 21 Manure 23 Ramrod 25 Celeriac 27 Etna 28/10 Fairy ring 29 Sore 31 Petals 32 Garland.

DOWN 1 Tea 2 Grasses 3 Tiara 4 Spinach 5 Sport 6 Uproots 7 Sansevieria 12 Lady’s mantle 15 Air 17 Kim 19 Ternata 20 Arching 22 Nerissa 24 Daffs 26 Layer 30 Rod.