| BORAGE | Related to forget-me-not and comfrey and esteemed by honeybees and butterflies, a plant with blue star-shaped flowers used to garnish Pimm's Cup (6) |
| LETHE | Flower, certainly not related to forget-me-not |
| ROYALJELLY | Nutritious substance secreted by honeybees and fed to the young larvae in a colony (5,5) |
| DOUGLAS | Capital of the Isle of Man and seat of the Tynwald; or, a poet of the Second World War who wrote Vergissmeinnicht (forget-me-not) and the memoir Alamein to Zem Zem (7) |
| NETTLES | Esteemed by tortoiseshells, red admirals and other butterflies, a foraged plant with leaves used for tea, soup or to wrap the Cornish cheese yarg (7) |
| RABBLE | A large flutter of butterflies; a confused stream of words; a mob; or, the so-called great unwashed, hoi polloi or populace, collectively (6) |
| NOT | How to forget me? |
| HELIOTROPE | From the Greek meaning "sun-turning", the cherry- pie plant related to borage, comfrey and forget-me-not; its characteristic lilac-violet colour; or, its scent (10) |
| AZURE | Blue street map you're picking up |
| ARNICA | The golden-bloomed herb "leopard's-bane"; or, a balm or tincture of said plant's dried flowers that, like comfrey and calendula, is used as a traditional or folk remedy for aches, bruises or sprains ( |
| FLAX | Fibre from a plant with blue flowers, used to make linen (4) |
| AGAPANTHUS | Latin or genus name of a plant with blue or white flowers, commonly called lily of the Nile (10) |
| BEEEATERS | These European birds eat about 200 bees a day. (Hence their name.) Their summer diet is mainly bumblebees, and in winter they eat honeybees and dragonflies. The bird rubs the insect against the branch |
| DAISY | Opening its oculus when the Sun rises at dawn, a small marguerite with white petals or rays traditionally plucked in the child's game "he loves me, he loves me not" and whose stem can form part of a n |
| LADYBIRD | With a Latin designation that refers to the word "scarlet", a spotted beetle esteemed by gardeners, whose name was given to an imprint of children's books (8) |
| THYME | Fragrant herb related to lavender, mint and rosemary, used for bouquets garnis and esteemed for its oregano-scented essential oil (5) |
| PETAL | This part of a flower's corolla could be the yellow of a primrose of the blue of forget-me-not |
| CRABBE | A rector of Muston in the Vale of Belvoir as well as a surgeon, poet and coleopterist whose works such as The Village and The Borough were esteemed by Tennyson (6) |
| POWDER | Cosmetic in a compact, applied with a puff; or, fresh lightweight snow esteemed by skiers (6) |
| FERN | Cryptogamous plant esteemed by pteridomaniacs and roosting nightjars and whose furled fronds are depicted at the heads of fiddles (4) |
