| ROSEBUDS | Unopened flowers of hybrid tea or floribunda, say |
| ROSE | Flower which can be tea or floribunda (4) |
| ROSEBOWLS | Ornamental often-collectable crystal, opalescent, peach-blow, silver or Victorian glass vessels, either for freshly cut damasks, floribundas and hybrid teas or for dried potpourris (9) |
| ICE | '___ Cream', award-winning variety of hybrid tea rose (3) |
| DAWNCHORUS | Early-morning birdsong and an award-winning variety of hybrid tea rose (4,6) |
| ROSARIAN | Breeder of scented brier beauties, cultivator of fragrant floribundas, expert in eglantines, grower of grandifloras, propagator of hybrid teas, tender of velvety damasks or other such floriculturist o |
| ARTICHOKE | Gourmet vegetable with a heart derived from the unopened flower of a species of thistle often grown in a walled kitchen garden (9) |
| BUDS | Shoots or unopened flowers; or, the makings of antlers, horns or limbs (4) |
| ROSES | Hybrid tea, floribunda etc (5) |
| CLOVE | Segment of a bulb of garlic; or, the unopened flower bud of a plant in the myrtle family used as an aromatic spice to flavour ginger cake or pumpkin pie (5) |
| ROSEBOWL | What might contain arrangement of unopened flowers possessing strong smell? |
| TEAROSE | Variety of hybrid rose with pink or yellow flowers (3,4) |
| ROSETTE | Decorative knot of ribbons, disc of copper, leopard spot, round window or whorl or leaves, all recalling the name and round shape of a fragrant floribunda, highly attractive to bees (7) |
| BUDDIES | Friends pass away, covered by unopened flowers (7) |
| SCHOOLS | Head of Siemens becomes less enthusiastic about earliest of hybrid trains |
| SIGNORA | Orange-pink hybrid tea rose or the title of a married Italian woman (7) |
| ANNIVERSARY | Celebration of the hybrid tea rose 'Silver ___' and clematis 'Diamond ___'! (11) |
| DUCHESS | '___ of Cornwall' is a majestic hybrid tea rose (7) |
| ROSEBUSH | Floribunda or other prickly thorny garden perennial with fragrant blush, crimson or pink velvety blooms abounding in the form of a shrubby plant or hedge rather than as a rambler (8) |
| CENTAURUS | In Greek myth, the father of a race of hybrid half-human, half-horse creatures (9) |
