Yiyun Li reflects on planting flowers to cope with the loss of her son, and on the horticultural writings of Katharine S. White and Elizabeth Lawrence.
Latter patter
18d Oneâs purple in bed,
if such frolics end in angina (7)
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definition: something purple in a (flower) bed]
⦠I remembered just in time that the FUCHSIA is named after German botanist Leonhard Fuchs, however it may be pronounced. Iâve been error-prone myself in the last 13 months, so I am not acting the know-all when I note that I canât identify a single UK broadsheet that hasnât published a âfuschiaâ (as Iâve just contributed one myself).
Words frequently misspelled according to the way they are often pronounced seemed a good idea for our next challenge, but a decent candidate was elusive ⦠for a while. Reader, how would you clue PRONUNCIATION?