| 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) |
| RAIN | Purple -, Prince song (4) |
| CANDYCANE | Peppermint stick (2 wds.) |
| CANE | Peppermint stick |
| PEARS | With cultivars including Anjou, Doyenne du Comice, Conference, jargonelle and Williams, orchard fruits related to quinces and medlars (5) |
| 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) |
| DIGITALIS | With cultivars including Glittering Prizes, Milk Chocolate, Apricot Beauty, Strawberry and Sugar Plum, the Latin name of the foxglove (9) |
| HEBE | Shrubby veronica with cultivars including 'Mrs Winder' and 'Red Edge' (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) |
| DAHLIA | Flowering between late June and early December, a tuberous plant with cultivars including Cafe au Lait and Twyning's After Eight (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) |
| 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) |
| TEAROSE | Hybrid garden flower with cultivars including Enchantress, Gorgeous, Wedding Bells and Rock 'n' Roll (3,4) |
| TULIP | Bulbiferous flower with cultivars including Christmas Dream and Merry Christmas (5) |
| MAGNOLIA | With cultivars including Fairy Blush, the UK's favourite flowering tree (8) |
| OLDROSE | Alba, centifolia, damask, gallicas ... description of a flower with cultivars including Baroness Rothschild, Bourbon Queen and Empress Josephine (3,4) |
| FREESIA | With cultivars including Ballerina, White Wonder and Pink Fountain, flower sometimes mixed into a bridesmaid's bouquet for its scent (7) |
| 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) |
| LETTUCE | Leaf vegetable, allied to daisies and sunflowers, such as the butterhead bibb or the crisphead iceberg (7) |
