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It’s a good idea to __ summer bedding plants regularly (8) Apply tomato __ fortnightly to crops in pots and grow bags (4) Poisonous plant belonging to the nightshade family (7) Check brassica  ‘Hibernica’ is better known as __ yew (5) A plant that grows on another plant for support (8) A shoot of asparagus or broccoli, for example (5) __ fern is a name for (7) Genus of July bloomers known as sweet spire (4)  is better known as the __ iris (7) Summer-blooming bulb also called Peruvian daffodil (6) Stiff bristle growing from the ear of various cereals (3) ‘__ Hoffmann’ is a popular variety of Chile lantern tree (3)

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