| DEVILSBIT | Species of scabious with lilac-blue or violet pincushion-like flowers and roots imagined to have been begnawed by "Old Scratch", hence its name in question and Latin epithet Succisa pratensis, "cut fr |
| AUTUMN | - crocus; also known as meadow saffron and naked lady, a corm plant with lilac-blue flowers from September to November, genus Colchicum (6) |
| CEPHALARIA | Genus of scabious-like flower - each April a variation (10) |
| BESIDE | I'd have bees next to me (6) |
| GEMINI | Double-flowering, lilac-blue clematis - Castor and Pollux (6) |
| YUCCA | Tall plant with bell-like flowers and stiff spiky leaves (5) |
| ANEMONES | Soft, brightly coloured sea creatures that look like flowers and live on ocean rocks (8) |
| FLORAL | Like flowers and for a pound get about fifty (6) |
| COCO | Palm with coir- and copra-yielding nuts imagined to have grinning or grimacing grotesque faces (4) |
| BLACKBIRD | They were taken to Australia and New Zealand in the 19th century. The female of this species makes a nest of plant stems, grass, twigs, and roots in the shape of a cup. In the New World, the name of t |
| JACARANDA | Tree with lilac flowers and fern-like leaves, they are often planted alongside roads in Mallorca to line the streets with colour (9) |
| LOBELIA | Herbaceous plant with blue or purple flowers, named after a physician to King James I (7) |
| VETCH | Climbing leguminous plant with blue or purple flowers and tendrils on the stems (5) |
| DEVILS | Succisa pratensis, or - bit scabious, has purple blooms like pincushions in autumn (6) |
| SCABIOUS | Plant such as the Small ..., Scabiosa columbaria, with blue, pink or white pincushion-shaped flowers (8) |
| TANZANITE | African gemstone variety of the mineral zoisite coloured blue or purple by the presence of vanadium (9) |
| CENTAUR | He's imagined to have two arms and four legs (7) |
| HONEYSUCKLE | Fragrant woodbine Lonicera of cottage gardens, hedgerows and woodland that shares its family with the beauty bush, pincushion flower, snowberry and seablush (11) |
| SEAEGG | Another name for an ovoid or globular spiny hedgehog-like marine echinus, urchin or veritable pincushion of the ocean floor (3,3) |
| HEATHER | Plant with lilac-purple flowers but also white, considered lucky in Scotland (7) |
