Spraying a pest consuming tiny flowering plant (5,3)
I believe the answer is:
sweet pea
'flowering plant' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'spraying a pest consuming tiny' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'a' is found in the answer.
'tiny' could be 'wee' (I've seen this before) and 'wee' is located in the answer.
an anagram of 'pest' is 'stpe' which is located in the remaining letters.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for sweet pea that I've seen before include "Perfumed climber" , "Peseta we paid for climbing garden flower" , "Pew tease (anag) - flower" , "Climbing garden plant with pastel flowers" , "Highly-scented garden climber" .)