| ALLIUMS | Bulbous perennials with showy pompom blooms (7) |
| CANTS | Tender perennials with showy flowers - "unable to" some Scots might say! (5) |
| TIGER | - - - lily, bulbous perennial with dark-spotted orange flowers (5) |
| SCILLA | Bulbous perennial with blue star-shaped flowers (6) |
| DAHLIA | Perennial with showy flowers (6) |
| RODGERSIA | Moisture-loving perennial with showy palm-shaped leaves (9) |
| NEMESIA | See main genus of African summer-flowering annuals and perennials, with variously coloured, slightly spurred flowers! (anag.) (7) |
| DIERAMA | Genus of flowering perennials, with common names including wandflower and angel's fishing rod (7) |
| ROSCOEA | Genus of perennials with orchid-like flowers - sort of coarse, nothing inside (7) |
| LOBELIA | - - - - - - - cardinalis, striking, erect perennial with scarlet blooms (7) |
| DAYLILY | Perennial with short-lived blooms |
| VERBENA | - - - - - - - bonariensis, perennial with tall purple flower spikes (7) |
| LIRIOPE | Lilyturf or - - - - - - - muscari, grasslike perennial with purple spikes (7) |
| ANEMONE | Japanese ___; autumn-flowering herbaceous perennial with cultivars including white Honorine Jobert and pink adspen Abundance (7) |
| CAMPION | She's a woolly-leaved garden perennial with magenta flowers (4,7) |
| TWEEDIA | Commonname of a South American perennial with sky-blue flowers - partly rampant weed, I admit (7) |
| BEANIES | Hats sometimes adorned with pompoms |
| BOBBLES | Pompoms for decorating the tops of knitted hats; or, stretchy bands for tying ponytails (7) |
| SHORTOS | Pair of pompoms? |
| CROCI | Perennials with cup-shaped flowers |
