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1 Asian country where bamboo is thought to have originated (5)
3 Arum maculatum, woodland perennial commonly called - - - - - and ladies (5)
6 Showy, spiked perennial – the - - - - - - - lily or Eremurus robustus (7)
7 ‘- - - - - de Lune’, collared yellow dahlia cultivar and a Debussy piano piece (5)
9 Legendary radio gardening expert - - - Sowerbutts (4)
12 - - - - garden, stone-structured plot designed for displaying alpines (4)
13 Seedling cells in which plants are grown individually in trays (5)
16 Perennial genus of the sea pinks and thrift (7)
17 Term descriptive of those chrysanthemums with multiple flowerheads (5)
18 Cuckoo flower or lady’s - - - - -, country names for Cardamine pratensis (5)
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1 Dinnerplate dahlia variety known as ‘- - - - au Lait’, coffee with hot milk (4)
2 Low-growing springtime herbaceous plant called rockcress (6)
3 Corn - - - -, bulbous plant of the ixia genus with star-shaped blooms (4)
4 Euphorbia cultivar sharing its name with a winter-visiting thrush (7)
5 Genus to which the squills and Spanish bluebells belong (6)
8 Fiery red crocosmia cultivar borrowing its name from the fallen angel (7)
10 Bright spring-flowering corm often planted in groups in lawns (6)
11 Term often used for the feathery inflorescences of pampas grasses (6)
14 Names popularly given to alstroemeria – Peruvian lily or Ulster - - - - (4)
15 Flowering plant of the arum family, - - - - in the pulpit (4)
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