| NARCISSI | Plants in island thus smuggled from the east |
| OSTIA | Old port in island, thus going West |
| MUSICHALL | Theatre in Scottish island thus has closed early |
| JURASSIC | Scottish island thus accommodating Pole of a certain age? |
| REEDS | Plants in the east among the Russians (5) |
| BED | Area for plants in the garden, as in the daylily varieties '___ of Roses' and '___ of Nails' (3) |
| BID | Offer a price for the first half of the burr marigold genus of plants (in the aster family), especially at an auction! (3) |
| LEGUME | The fruit of plants in the pea family (6) |
| TRITONIA | Genus of flowering plants in the iris family including the flame freesia |
| GSN | Plants in the West, for example, in appeal for help |
| NUNNERY | Poles in place of Royal Society in place of plants in place of sisters (7) |
| RHIZOME | One of the main types of subterranean stem of plants in the catch-all group known botanically as cryptophytes (7) |
| ROSES | Plants in the apple family with berry-like fruits known as hips in late summer and autumn (5) |
| BARBARASBUTTONS | Folk name for plants in the sunflower tribe, native to the southern US (8, 7) |
| SOLIDAGO | Genus of more than a hundred plants in the family Asteraceae commonly known as the goldenrods (8) |
| ARUM | Genus of plants in which the flowers are produced in a spadix surrounded by a spathe |
| STELLARIA | Genus of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae that includes the stitch worts and chickweeds (9) |
| CROCUS | Genus of flowering plants in the iris family often seen in early spring (6) |
| SORGHUM | Genus of about 25 species of plants in the grass family, some of which are grown as cereals for human consumption, and others in pastures for animals (7) |
| FENNEL | Aromatic umbellifer such as finocchio that is one of the symbolic plants in Ophelia's floral soliloquy in Hamlet with columbine, daisy, pansy, rosemary, rue and violet (6) |
