| BLUEBELLS | Fragrant violet-coloured woodland blooms that are the UK's favourite wild flowers (9) |
| PAYMASTER | John Glen and Nick Thomas-Symonds are the UK's most recent ____s general |
| DAHLIAS | Brightly colored blooms that are the national flowers of Mexico |
| BLUEBELL | Voted England's favourite wild flower, a protected species of glades and ancient woodland in spring (8) |
| VELVET | Nickname of Jan van Kessel's grandfather Jan Brueghel, a Flemish artist noted for his lavish paintings of flowers, brilliantly coloured woodland scenes and rendering of textiles, hence his sobriquet ( |
| BUTTERFLY | Insect akin to a moth, Mallorca boasts a good range with varieties such as the Swallowtails, Clouded Yellows and Painted Ladies enjoying the long grass and wild flowers that abound in the island's cou |
| SUNFLOWER | Bloom that is a symbol of pride or haughtiness (perhaps because Van Gogh made it as famous as the ir |
| CHERRYPIE | A pudding of bigarreaux, geans, morellos, oxhearts or other similar fruits baked in a crust-topped pastry shell; or, the fragrant purple-flowered garden heliotrope (6-3) |
| MAYFLOWER | Spring bloom that went to America (9) |
| PRIMROSES | Spring wild flowers (9) |
| MAGNOLIAS | Good being covered with Somalian wild flowers (9) |
| FOXGLOVES | Fool put nothing in empty glass but wild flowers |
| HAREBELLS | She'll bear unusual wild flowers |
| ROSES | Blooms that are often sold by the dozen |
| MAGNOLIA | With goblet- or star-shaped spring blooms and cultivars including Fairy Blush, Heaven Scent. Sunrise. Galaxy and Porcelain Dove, the UK's favourite flowering tree (8) |
| LILIES | Big-petaled blooms that are fatal to cats |
| ROBIN | Related to blackbird, nightingale and thrush, the UK's favourite bird (5) |
| IODINE | An element in the halogen group that can form a dense violet-coloured vapour (6) |
| WILDROSE | Be it the fragrant eglantine, sweetbrier, or the apparently inferior "dog" bloom that is easy to grow, it's a thorny country rambler, free-spirited prickly beauty or untamed blossom of the English hed |
| LILACS | Small trees of the olive family with fragrant violet, pink or white blossoms (6) |
