Gardens Illustrated Magazine

Christmas crossword

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Genus of white-flowering, red-berried shrubs aka Christmas berry – topless Ethiopian variety (8)  _____ , commonly called Christmas box (10)  See 31 down  Art of paper-folding … an series of usually bi-coloured flowers (7)  Plantsman ___ Foerster has lark around! (4)  Fruit of 9 down – found in Christmas tree (4)  A cultivar, turning pink in summer – Ralph arranged partly (5)  The species of the British native anemone – as  Common name of – from alyssum, actually! (5)  Common name for is ___ needle (5)  Genus of ‘spider flower’ – in part Miracle Omega (6)  Use secateurs lightly – a bargain! (4)   (foxtail lily) with yellow/orange flowers, named after Latin ballroom dance (5)  Collective term for flower's sepals, modified as cycle! (7)  Tall-stemmed feathery ___ grass, in genus (6)   with flat-headed pink flower clusters – found in clay land (5)  Apply manure, say … producing red sap oddly (6)  Makes a great effort … to produce varieties of plants? (7)  Intense light beam shows series of medium-size colourful cyclamen (5)  Trunk segments – after Yule they're a Christmas treat! (4)  Small, globular flower head of eg ‘Wizard of Oz’ (6)  Plantain lily: ‘Christmas Tree’ is a vigorous type with cream-edged leaves (5)  Sit on this shrub cut back to ground level to produce new shoots? (5)  Common name of plant – was, initially, found in scattered turnips (8)  Remove water – December's first downpour (5)  Hampton __, method of pruning perennials after they've flowered (4)  A common name for Scottish heather, (4)  Plant-based material, fragrant when burned (7)  “Endless ill-will” describes an acid in eg apple juice (5)  Genus of ornamental ‘Fountain grass’ – Penny gets awfully, um, intense (10)  A popular cultivar of 1 across, species x – cocky garden visitor (3,5)

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