Half-heartedly distribute new plants around gardens, favouring some areas? (6)
I believe the answer is:
skewed
'half-heartedly distribute new plants' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.
'gardens favouring some areas?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'gardens' could be 'kew' (Kew Gardens in London) and 'kew' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'sed' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'around' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for skewed that I've seen before include "On a slant" , "Slanted, distorted" , "'Slanted, oblique (6)'" , "with bias" , "Biased, distorted" .)