| FLORAL | Like herbaceous borders, cultivated for all (6) |
| BANANA | Tall, tree-like, herbaceous plant yielding a fruit with an edible pulp (6) |
| 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) |
| SHRUBS | Small woody plants such as box, bay or lavender, often mixed into herbaceous borders with perennials (6) |
| GATHER | Pick up planting at herbaceous border pruned seven times |
| AARONSROD | It's found in herbaceous borders or adorns a rock (6,3) |
| GARDENS | Said to be lovely or rosy when all is well, parterres planted with features such as flower-beds, herbaceous borders, lawns, orchards, potagers, shrubberies and topiaries (7) |
| BEDDEDDOWN | Settled in, in a herbaceous border? (6,4) |
| NIGELLA | Genus of love-in-a-mist, a self-seeding cottage garden flower often appearing in paving or herbaceous borders (7) |
| HOLLYHOCK | Tall flower ranging in colour from pastel peach to cassis; a stalwart of herbaceous borders and cottage gardens with delphiniums, lupins and foxgloves (9) |
| HORTICULTURE | The art or practice of cultivating herbaceous borders, knots, orchards, parterres, potagers, rosariums, vegetable plots or other gardens (12) |
| DIRLETONCASTLE | E Lothian location of the world's longest herbaceous border (8,6) |
| GARDENER | Word for one who tends an allotment, curtilage, herbaceous border, orchard, potager, rockery, shrubbery or other such hortus (8) |
| SEDGE | Plant end of herbaceous border (5) |
| HEDGE | Start of herbaceous border that runs around garden (5) |
| EDGE | Seed geraniums around herbaceous border (4) |
| DELPHINIUM | Derived from the Latin meaning dolphin, a flower commonly called larkspur traditionally forming a herbaceous border with plants such as lupins, hollyhocks and foxgloves (10) |
| PERENNIAL | Type of herbaceous border plant that grows back year after year foxglove, hellebore, anemone, peony,A echinacea, rambling rose and many more (9) |
| IRIS | Polychromatic gemstone also called rainbow quartz; or, a purple or yellow flower found in a herbaceous border or at the water's edge (4) |
| SESAME | Tall herbaceous plant cultivated for its oil-rich seeds (6) |
