| HOLLYHOCK | Traditional cottage garden herbaceous border flower, depicted in several watercolours by Helen Allin |
| CLIFF | Depicted in watercolours by Eric Ravilious, part of a coastline such as the Seven Sisters in Sussex or those formed by ice-age floods in Dover (5) |
| SPENSER | Author of The Faerie Queene, an allegorical epic poem dedicated to Elizabeth I with characters painted in watercolours by William Blake some 250 years later (7) |
| INGLENOOK | Traditional cottage chimne corner 9) |
| IRIS | Flower depicted in paintings by Vincent van Gogh; or, a personification of the rainbow in Greek mythology (4) |
| TWEED | Flower depicted in coarse woollen cloth (5) |
| COTTAGE | Rural dwelling depicted in several paintings by Vincent van Gogh (7) |
| SHAWL | Pashmina- or wrap-like garment, depicted in several paintings by John Singer Sargent including Cashmere (5) |
| CARAVAN | Depicted in several paintings by Edwin Lord Weeks, generic name for a company of travellers journeying across a desert; or, a camel trainA (7) |
| POPPIES | Wild flowers depicted in Claude Monet's Coquelicots, several paintings by Vincent Van Gogh and in John McCrae's poem In Flanders Fields (7) |
| NIGELLA | Genus of love-in-a-mist, a self-seeding cottage garden flower often appearing in paving or herbaceous borders (7) |
| VASES | Vessels for flowers depicted in various still lifes by Vincent van Gogh (5) |
| MIMOSA | Shrub with bubbly-looking, yellow flowers depicted in Miami mosaic |
| MANTLE | Lady's -; often placed in herbaceous borders, gravel paths or in posies with garden roses, peonies, clove-scented pinks, lemon thyme or lavender, the flower Alchemilla (6) |
| PEONIES | Flowers depicted in classical Chinese art |
| ROSE | A flower depicted with castles, daisies, leaves etc on a narrowboat in a traditional form of folk art (4) |
| BEDDEDDOWN | Settled in, in a herbaceous border? (6,4) |
| HEDGE | Start of herbaceous border that runs around garden (5) |
| THISTLE | With downy seeds eaten by goldfinches, flower depicted on shortbread rounds that is the national emblem of Scotland (7) |
| ALCEA | Latin name of hollyhocks, flowers with heirloom varieties grown in cottage gardens and farmsteads, depicted in paintings by Helen Allingham (5) |
