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Our hydrangea’d turned out rudely vigorous (5-3-5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

rough-and-ready

'rudely vigorous' is the definition.

'our hydrangea'd turned out' is the wordplay.
'turned out' indicates an anagram.
'our'+'hydrangead'='ourhydrangead'
'ourhydrangead' is an anagram of 'ROUGH-AND-READY'.

(Other definitions for rough-and-ready that I've seen before include "Lacking refinement but serving a purpose" , "Easily improvised" , "Hastily prepared, but adequate" , "Crude - unpolished" , "Unrefined" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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