Time and date in Rome for flowers (5)
I believe the answer is:
tides
'flowers' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to time as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'time and date in rome' is the wordplay.
'time' becomes 't' (abbreviation).
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'date in rome' becomes 'ides' (Roman calendar term, as in the Ides of March).
't'+'ides'='TIDES'
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tides that I've seen before include "Rises and falls, nautically" , "Current trends" , "Sited (anag.)" , "Lunar ocean movements" , "Is Ted going in and out?" .)