| ESPALIER | Train shrubs to grow against a wall (8) |
| WAXMYRTLE | Shrub to grow remotely, all over the place without energy, oxygen (3,6) |
| OLEANDER | The shrub to bend over in the river (8) |
| LAVENDER | Shrub to finish amongst seaweed (8) |
| BUTTRESS | A structure of brick or stone built against a wall to support it (8) |
| SQUASH | Word for a close crowd; a crushed mass; fruit cordial; a game named for one of its early rubber spheres that scrunched against a wall; a gourd; a social gathering; or, according to Shakespeare, an unr |
| OLEA | Genus of evergreen trees and shrubs to which the olives belong, related to the ash, privet, jasmine etc. (4) |
| HEDGELAYING | Method of training a closely planted row of shrubs to form an effective barrier (5,6) |
| DOGWOOD | Shrub to make a boxer, for example, join a golf club (7) |
| FRIARS | Monk et al. force prickly shrubs to be dead-headed (6) |
| ACER | Genus of trees and shrubs to which the maple belongs (4) |
| LAURELS | Shrubs (to rest on?) (7) |
| ESPALIERS | Ornamental shrubs or trees trained to grow flat against a wall (9) |
| BUCHU | Medicinal shrub to form a tight cluster, deprived of nitrogen and phosphorus |
| PATCHOULI | Scent from shrub to touch a lip with (9) |
| IMPLANT | One man had a shrub to put into the ground (7) |
| ESPALIERED | Description of a tree that has been trained to grow flat against a wall (10) |
| PELOTA | Originally Basque court sport using a basket-like racket to hurl a ball against a wall |
| DIVAN | A backless couch designed to be set against a wall (5) |
| CONSOLE | A table designed to stand against a wall |
