Plants

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Across
  1. 2. Prickly evergreen tree, popular at Christmas.
  2. 6. Spring blue-coloured flower
  3. 7. Newer name for monbretia
  4. 8. Girl's name and scented shrubby herb.
  5. 9. The 'first rose of spring'.
  6. 11. Winter flowering, spiky shrub with yellow flowers
  7. 13. Pretty white flowered lawn weed.
  8. 14. Tulips grow from one of these.
  9. 16. Herb used to make stuffing for chicken.
  10. 17. National flower for England?
Down
  1. 1. National plant for Scotland.
  2. 3. Large-leaved, shiny green evergreen shrub used for hedging.
  3. 4. Re-arrange EYW to make evergreen tree.
  4. 5. The correct name for the tender geraniums.
  5. 10. Tall, invasive, strap-leaved shrub
  6. 12. Common name for rhododendron lutea
  7. 15. National plant for Wales.