| PLANT | Part of the flora |
| KILMUIR | Skye village, location of the Flora Macdonald monument (7) |
| WHITE | Parson-naturalist who catalogued the flora and fauna of Hampshire in his famed The Natural History of Selborne, separating three warblers, including the chiffchaff, noting the unique harvest mouse and |
| REPLANT | Change the flora |
| MISTS | Freshens the flora |
| OFFICER | Actor putting the flora in Florida? (7,5) |
| BLOOM | Actor putting the flora in Florida? (7,5) |
| ORLANDO | Actor putting the flora in Florida? (7,5) |
| APRIL | Month meaning "to open", in allusion to the flora blooming in spring - a time for Chaucer's "sweet showers" (5) |
| HEDGEROW | Flora-rich border/habitat forming the landscape of the countryside, preserved though a traditional pleaching method advocated by the Prince of Wales (8) |
| FOXGLOVES | Growing near dens of vixens and their male counterparts and loved by fairies according to folklore, one of the most poisonous plants in our flora, Digitalis (9) |
| SCILLY | Isles of -; an archipelago off the coast of Cornwall noted for flora and fauna including Atlantic grey seals, puffins and scented narcissi (6) |
| TITIAN | Artist of the VenZ-tian school whose paintings include Sleeping Venus, A Man with a Quilted Sleeve, Woman with a Mirror, Flora and Equestrian Portrait of Charles V (6) |
| ASA | Botanist Gray, co-author of "Flora of North America" |
| LIZA | She won her first Tony for playing Flora in "Flora, the Red Menace" |
| REALM | Any one of eight biogeographical divisions of Earth's land surface, each with own particular flora and fauna (5) |
| APPLYFORAJOB | Make use of flora left out by the post - it's what unemployed gardener might do (5,3,1,3) |
| MADAGASCAR | Island country with the capital Antananarivo where 90 per cent of its flora and fauna are endemic (10) |
| RAINFOREST | Rule Twiggy the miner, they say - for the tropical flora! (10) |
| RAY | Correct name for the 'petal' of a daisy - in flora, yes (3) |
