| DAWNCHORUS | Early-morning birdsong and an award-winning variety of hybrid tea rose (4,6) |
| ICE | '___ Cream', award-winning variety of hybrid tea rose (3) |
| ROSEBUDS | Unopened flowers of hybrid tea or floribunda, say |
| ROSARIAN | Breeder of scented brier beauties, cultivator of fragrant floribundas, expert in eglantines, grower of grandifloras, propagator of hybrid teas, tender of velvety damasks or other such floriculturist o |
| DAWN | - chorus; morning birdsong in spring and early summer (4) |
| MISSMUFFET | Nursery rhyme character, and an award-winning variety of Lavandula augustifolia (4,6) |
| OSPREY | Bird of prey, and an award-winning variety of penstemon (6) |
| TAURUS | Star sign, and an award winning variety of rhododendron (6) |
| WOMBAT | Burrowing Australian marsupial, and an award-winning variety of rhododendron (6) |
| DOBRO | Legendary Spanish swordsman, and an award-winning variety of dahlia (5) |
| EROICA | Beethoven's 3rd Symphony, and an award-winning variety of bergenia (6) |
| HANDEL | 18th-century composer, and award-winning variety of climbing Hybrid Tea rose (6) |
| WILSON | Food writer and MasterChef semi-finalist "Bee" whose father is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an award-winning biographer (6) |
| ELLE | This hybrid tea rose variety is a lifestyle magazine (of French origin) focusing on fashion, beauty, health and entertainment - and is also found in hellebores! (4) |
| WHITER | A hybrid tea rose variety (and a Procol Harum song): A ___ Shade of Pale (6) |
| DAYLIGHTROBBERY | Variety of hybrid barley got for an unfair price (8,7) |
| TEAROSE | Variety of hybrid rose with pink or yellow flowers (3,4) |
| ANNIVERSARY | Celebration of the hybrid tea rose 'Silver ___' and clematis 'Diamond ___'! (11) |
| RACHEL | Gardener, ___ De Thame and name of peach-pink hybrid tea rose with frilly petals (6) |
| VERNE | Jules ----- , French sci-fi pioneer and a pink and yellow hybrid tea rose (5) |