Possible Clues:

• Seeds tease an old lady at Flushing Meadow?
• Common spice in Indian food
• Spice; a mad corm (anag.)
• Ginger family spice
• Medicinal herb
• Maybe Queen Mother kept a type of plant
• Article on eccentric American mother that's spicy
• It's comic for a Stateside mother to use spice
• Seeds used as spice
• Brief communication to a parent, something spicy