| AUCUBA | Botanical name of the evergreen shrub often called spotted laurel (6) |
| MYRTLE | Strangely, try elm for the evergreen shrub with dark blue berries |
| IBERIS | Botanical name of the sub-shrub commonly called candytuft (6) |
| ALLIUM | Latin or botanical name of the onion and its relatives including chives, garlic, leek, shallot and the flowers Globemaster and Purple Sensation (6) |
| CEREUS | Botanical name of the upper hidden plant (6) |
| HEDERA | Botanical name of the lower hidden plant (6) |
| PRIVET | Shrub often used for hedging in neat suburban gardens, hence its use as the name of a muggle street, where the non-magical "perfectly normal" Dursleys reside, in the fictional universe of Harry Potter |
| NUTMEG | Spice obtained from the seeds of the evergreen Indonesian tree Myristica fragrans, whose seed coverings produce mace (6) |
| OLIVES | What would you pick from the evergreen tree Olea europaea? (6) |
| ILEXES | The evergreen trees that baffle exiles (6) |
| AGROSTEMMA | From the Greek for "garland of fields", the botanical name of the corncockles whose association with agricultural landscapes dates back some 4,000 years (10) |
| LUNARIA | Botanical name of the first of the two hidden plants (7) |
| TAGETES | From the name of an Etruscan god who sprang from the ploughed earth, the botanical name of marigolds (7) |
| MUSCARI | Latin or botanical name of the grape hyacinth, a spring flower related to bluebells, often planted in garden borders, vintage pots or under trees (7) |
| ARMERIA | Botanical name of the coastal plant lady's cushion, marsh pink, Mary's pillow or thrift, whose flowers were depicted on threepenny bits as wartime emblems of frugality (7) |
| WALNUT | Deciduous tree whose botanical name, Juglans regia, translates as "royal kernel of the god Jove" (6) |
| LINUM | Botanical name of the flax genus (5) |
| ABIESALBA | Botanical name of the European Silver Fir (5,4) |
| OENOTHERA | Botanical name of the hidden flower (9) |
| OSMUNDA | Latin or botanical name of the royal, cinnamon and interrupted ferns (7) |
