With spade, hole almost prepared for plant (8)
I believe the answer is:
asphodel
'plant' is the definition.
The answer is an example.
'with spade hole almost prepared' is the wordplay.
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'almost' means to remove the last letter (most of the word but not all of it).
'prepared' indicates an anagram.
'hole' with its final letter taken away is 'hol'.
'spade'+'hol' is 'spadehol'.
'spadehol' is an anagram of 'ASPHODEL'.
'for' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for asphodel that I've seen before include "Old shape (anag) - plant" , "Elysian plant" , "Plant of lily family - lop heads (anag)" , "Flower of lily family - old heaps (anag)" , "Shop deal (anag.)" .)