Answers are flowers plants trees or shrubs

[halcyon days]

Clues:
1. Warm the girl (7)
2. This jungle animal is a fop (9)
3. Carefulness (6)
4. Popular perennial found in a barrel up in the border (5)
5. In charge of leaders in Japan (8)
6. I fold sugar around a large tree ( 7,3 )
7. Atree in a novice Darby and Joan Club (5)
8. An abbreviated semi-aquatic repile with us (7)

[shaneystar2]

3 Thrift
6 Douglas Fir
2 Dandelion
8 Crocus ? Only 6 letters though croc ..short for crocodile +us

[valerieb1254]

1) Heather
4) Lupin ( found in a barreL UP IN the border )

[valerieb1254]

7) Cedar
Tree in a noviCE DARby and joan club.

[valerieb1254]

5) Japonica
First letters ( leaders ) In charge of ( I C O ) + JAPAN.

[halcyon days]

Thanks Shaneystar and Valerieb