Well, here we are in sub-zero temperatures in the middle of winter with blizzards coming up the eastern coast and I make a puzzle about flowers! I'll blame Mrs. Cue. She discovered that she can play full episodes of P Allen Smith on the Roku!

Each clue results in a two word rhyming answer which contains the name of a flower. The number indicates the letter count of the flower name.

-1. a flower restraint (7)
-2. a flower disease (4)
-3. a real nippy flower (4)
-4. a lacy flower (4)
-5. a flower famine (9)
-6. a flower container (5)
-7. a flower liberty (5)
-8. a flower that's a loon (5)
-9. flower distress (6)
-10. a flower's central point (6)
-11. a flower boat (5)
-12. a sluggish flower (6)
-13. a flower grommet (6)

5. carnation starvation?

That's the one, Sue. Not my best rhyme. I wanted to clue for carnation tarnation but couldn't come up with a way to do it. Good solve.

13. violet eyelet

6 - phlox box

12. orchid torpid

8- crazy daisy

10. crocus focus

3. chilly lily

We're all a bit nippy

Good ones.

Bob, even though chilly lily works for #3, I used lily somewhere else.

2. iris virus

4. Frilly lily

3. chill dill?

1. heather tether
11. lilac kayak or tulip ship

7. sedum freedom

I had a nice chilled dill dip camping this year....yummy. But that's not my answer, manxman

Tulip ship. Interestink! I thought of tulip julep but I couldn't come up with a clue for it.

Down to two now. Added hints for them.

3. froze rose

9. yarrow sorrow

Ed Zackery!