| INCREASE | Nice ears about to grow (8) |
| GLEEFUL | Ear about to sense upset with great pleasure |
| HEATHER | Be all ears about the growth of the Highlands (7) |
| ODOUR | Owed, a word in your ear about a smell (5) |
| DRONE | Bee, at first, doesn't rave over nice ears (5) |
| RETIRE | Withdraw when about to grow weary (6) |
| IRISES | More than one plant is about to grow (6) |
| CAGE | About to grow old with such confinement (4) |
| GARLIC | Was a girl about to grow a pungent plant? (6) |
| HOTHOUSE | Place for women to show, sweaters to glow, or plants to grow? (8) |
| ESPALIER | Trellis to train plants to grow flat (8) |
| BROMELIA | Second city (American one's about first) to grow pineapple (8) |
| ORANGERY | Men cross about Spain being hot place to grow fruit (8) |
| NITROGEN | The first of the nurserymen to get iron mixture - it helps the plants to grow (8) |
| ENLARGES | Left garden, at the end, to grow up to a greater extent (8) |
| VEGETATE | To grow in the manner of plants, is to do what (8) |
| COALESCE | Fuse or cause to grow together (8) |
| SNOWBALL | It's projected to grow ever more quickly (8) |
| HELOTAGE | Male fate, to grow old in serfdom (8) |
| CRESCERE | Cresco, ____, crevi, cretum: to wax, to grow |
