| NERINE | - - - - - - bowdenii, S African autumn bulb with pink, lily-like blooms (6) |
| CROCUS | Spring, Autumn bulb flower (6) |
| LOTUS | Sacred water lily-like bloom whose ability to emerge clean and pure from muddy depths symbolises rising above adversity to achieve enlightenment (5) |
| ISABEL | With its showy magenta blooms, Nerine bowdenii '___' is an autumn treat (6) |
| ROCKET | The herb arugula; a firework; the rising of a game bird when flushed; or, with "sweet", dame's-violet or mother-of-the-evening with nightscented honesty-like blooms (6) |
| LILIUM | Popular genus of bulbs with flowers shaped like trumpets, funnels or Turk's caps (6) |
| OXLIPS | Pale yellow primrose-like blooms; the county flowers of Suffolk (6) |
| GARLIC | Edible bulb with a pungent flavour (6) |
| AGARIC | Plant a bulb with no end of soil (6) |
| SCILLA | Spring bulb with blue, bell-shaped flowers - damaged lilacs (6) |
| ALLIUM | Pungent family of bulbs, with fifty-one preserved in alum (6) |
| TULIPS | Popular spring bulbs with large, showy flowers (6) |
| CRINUM | Any of various plants of the Amaryllis family, characterised by luxuriant clusters of lily-like flowers (6) |
| FENNEL | Bulb with an aniselike flavor |
| ONIONS | Edible bulbs with several layers (6) |
| MUM | Word, imitative of an inarticulate sound made with one's mouth closed, meaning silence/silent; or, a nickname of one's mater or of a "chrysanth" with often pom-pom-like blooms (3) |
| CELANDINES | Buttercup-like blooms brightening winter's demise with illimitable golden galaxies, thus delighted in by Wordsworth and, like their etymological namesakes the swallows, regarded as "spring messengers" |
| MEADOWSWEET | With almond-honey-scented candyfloss-like blooms, bridewort of fen, riverbank and woodland, said to have been Elizabeth I's favourite strewing herb (11) |
| HELENIUM | American plant with daisy-like blooms, known as sneezeweed (8) |
| CAMELLIA | Genus of plants in the tea family with rose-like blooms (8) |
