| KENT | County nicknamed "the garden of England" |
| LOIRE | Its valley is nicknamed "The Garden of France" |
| KENTISH | Of "The Garden of England" (7) |
| TOOWOOMBA | City in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia, nicknamed 'The Garden City' |
| RIPON | Which English racecourse is nicknamed the Garden Racecourse? (5) |
| NEWJERSEY | US state (8,723 sq miles; pop about 9.3 million), nicknamed the Garden State (3,6) |
| LEIGHTON | President of the Royal Academy from 1878-96 who painted Crenaia the Nymph of the Dargle, The Garden of the Hesperides andA Flaming June (8) |
| HESPERIDES | In Greek mythology. the nymphs of evening who kept watch with a dragon over the garden of the golden apples in the Islands of the Blessed (10) |
| RODRIGO | Blind from the age of three, a Spanish composer whose guitar concerto Concierto de Aranjuez was inspired by the scent of the magnolias in the gardens of the Royal Palace of Aranjuez (7) |
| WEEKENDING | Holidaying briefly, tidying flower-bed around "garden of England" mostly |
| VELVET | Nickname of Jan Brueghel the Elder, creator of The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man with Peter Paul Rubens (6) |
| EARTHLY | Hieronymus Bosch triptych ranging from the Garden of Eden to a vision of hell, The Garden Of ... Del |
| KATHMANDU | 4,344 ft above sea level and east of the Buddhist pilgrimage site Lumbini, the Nepalese capital and Himalayan gateway, site of the Garden of Dreams (9) |
| EDEN | The Garden of in the Old Testament housed the Tree Of Knowledge Of Good And Evil (4) |
| GIHON | Second river mentioned in the Book of Genesis, one of four flowing from the Garden of Eden (5) |
| BOSCH | Surname of the Dutch artist who painted the triptych 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' (5) |
| PARADISE | Word for a walled garden of delight, pleasure ground or the garden of Eden, thus heaven, Shangri-la or any other place or state of bliss (8) |
| GERARD | Originally a barber-surgeon, the botanist and superintendent of the gardens of William Cecil, Lord Burghley and compiler of the tome Herball (6) |
| BUGLE | Instrument traditionally used to sound the Last Post; war veteran, Bill Osborne, 92, honours the fallen every Remembrance Day with a performance in the garden of his Ellesmere Port home (5) |
| LADON | Serpent-like dragon in Greek mythology that guarded the golden apples in the Garden of the Hesperides |
