| NIVAL | Growing in |
| SCOTSPINE | Growing in abundance in the Caledonian Forest in the Scottish Highlands, one of the three conifers n |
| LUPIN | Cottage garden perennial plant with spikes of flowers in all colours growing in all parts of the world, notably the shores of Lake Tekapo in New Zealand (5) |
| SWEDES | Wild plant growing in ship and in Stockholm (6) |
| MISTLETOE | Known in French as "gui", a whiteberried parasitic shrub found growing in the crowns of host trees i |
| REED | It's growing in freedom, in bed (4) |
| POLLEN | Yellow grains growing in the anthers of flowers which fertilizes the cells in the ovary |
| MUSCARI | Botanical name for small blue flowers growing in woodlands and cottage gardens or planted in pots indoors, commonly called grape hyacinths (7) |
| INTERCEDE | Found vine growing in new tree, so had to step in (9) |
| CRESCENDO | Note finale in complex score growing in intensity (9) |
| POPPY | Used as a symbol of remembrance and often growing in meadows with cornflowers, a wild bloom depicted in paintings by Monet and Van Gogh (5) |
| ROSES | Flowers growing in the walled gardens of Mottisfont in Hampshire where there is a National Collection of pre-1900 old-fashioned varieties (5) |
| DAWNREDWOOD | Coniferous tree (metasequoia) known only as a fossil until it was found growing in China in 1941! (4,7) |
| FORAGE | Hay/silage for horses or cattle; a rummage in search of edible berries, mushrooms, nuts, plants etc growing in the wild; or, provisions generally (6) |
| HALOPHYTE | Plant growing in or tolerating saline conditions, as in a salt marsh (9) |
| BINATE | Growing in pairs, botanically |
| QUINATE | Growing in sets of five |
| FAIRYRING | Mushrooms growing in a circle |
| HEATHER | Shrub growing in dense masses |
| ARBRES | Things growing in Quebec forests |
