| TEAROSE | Hybrid garden flower with cultivars including Wedding Bells and Rock 'n' Roll (3,4) |
| FAULKS | Author of the French trilogy consisting of The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray who also penned Jeeves and the Wedding Bells and the James Bond continuation novel Devil May Care (6) |
| POLYANTHUS | A hybrid garden primrose with brightly-coloured flowers |
| OLDROSE | Alba, centifolia, damask, gallicas ... description of a flower with cultivars including Baroness Rothschild, Bourbon Queen and Empress Josephine (3,4) |
| NIGELLA | With cultivars including Miss Jekyll, Persian jewels and Cambridge blue, a flower with lacy- or hazy-like bracts, also called love-in-a-mist (7) |
| FREESIA | With cultivars including Ballerina, White Wonder and Pink Fountain, flower sometimes mixed into a bridesmaid's bouquet for its scent (7) |
| ZINNIAS | Related to the daisies and with cultivars including Peppermint Stick, Purple Prince, Queeny Lime Red, Sunbow and Swizzle, the first flowers grown in space (7) |
| ANEMONE | Japanese ___; autumn-flowering herbaceous perennial with cultivars including white Honorine Jobert and pink adspen Abundance (7) |
| LILY | General name for a flower with cultivars including tiger babies, blushing joy, stargazer and golden splendour (4) |
| TULIP | Bulbiferous flower with cultivars including Christmas Dream and Merry Christmas (5) |
| PEARS | With cultivars including Anjou, Doyenne du Comice, Conference, jargonelle and Williams, orchard fruits related to quinces and medlars (5) |
| DAHLIA | Flowering between late June and early December, a tuberous plant with cultivars including Cafe au Lait and Twyning's After Eight (6) |
| DATE | With cultivars including deglet noor and medjool and often growing in an oasis, a palm cultivated for its fruit of the same, genus Phoenix (4) |
| RENO | Which Nevada city celebrates a huge annual festival with classic cars and rock 'n' roll? (4) |
| HEBE | Shrubby veronica with cultivars including 'Mrs Winder' and 'Red Edge' (4) |
| DIGITALIS | With cultivars including Glittering Prizes, Milk Chocolate, Apricot Beauty, Strawberry and Sugar Plum, the Latin name of the foxglove (9) |
| TOMATO | Sun-blushed, pureed, baked or chopped for bruschetta, "love apple" or "wolf's peach" with cultivars including Gardener's Delight, Golden Sunrise and Outdoor Girl (6) |
| SQUASH | A fruit cordial or presse; a close crowd; or, with cultivars including Angel Hair, Buttercup, Carnival, Crown Prince, Gold Nugget and Star, a type of pumpkin, often roasted or used for soup (6) |
| MAGNOLIA | With cultivars including Fairy Blush, the UK's favourite flowering tree (8) |
| ROSE | Flower with cultivars named for Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor |
