ACROSS
A royal-blue gentian hybrid with white striations; also a Highland Games venue (7) Staple cottage-garden plant with exploding seedpods … part global samphire (6) Burgundy-flowering hellebore in Spring Promise Series; ___ de Thame, TV gardener (6) Genus of plants commonly called speedwell (8) An ash tree's winged fruit – essential (3) A creamy iris with blue-spotted yellow falls – ‘Polaris'? (5,4) Hydrangeas with flat heads of tiny central flowers in a ring of showy florets (8) Emphasise: a plant may suffer this if grown in poor conditions (6) Tutu-like parts of fuchsia flowers hanging beneath sepals (6) Yellow-flowering (non-culinary) herb, wildly roaming at end of shrubbery (8) Latin species epithet meaning ‘white' … in annual barberry (4) Heart removed … from Granny Smith, say? (5) The genus of meadow grass … OAP confused! (3) Bulbous root vegetable, genus – cold, rice ale mixture (8) Eg thickets of plants or clods of soil (6) A story about the hop-hornbeam's genus (6) Genus of yellow ox-eye daisy – like tea variety (7)
