Possible Clues:

• Churchyard plant
• Plant in yard he'd water here regularly
• Very quickly
• You would sound like this
• You sound one of the forest!
• You're just a bit of wood, by the sound of it
• Source of many a bow, as you said, old actor's taken
• Sounds like the way to address one in the wood
• Red-fruited conifer
• Common occupant of churchyard recorded address to trio in Ireland