Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- Special day of celebration or time off (plural)
- 1 Across
- A protective covering of rotting vegetable matter spread to reduce evaporation and soil erosion
- 3 Across
- Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers
- 5 Across
- Colorful blooms that grow on plants
- 7 Across
- A visual representation produced on a surface (plural)
- 10 Across
- Working as a ___ gardener
- 11 Across
- Tall plant with a trunk and branches
- 12 Across
- The cultivation of plants
- 13 Across
- Green plant covering lawns
- 14 Across
- To make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc
- 2 Down
- To cut with a blade or mower
- 3 Down
- Apparatus for supplying artificial ___ effects for the stage or a film
- 4 Down
- Room where food is cooked
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- A ___ in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax
- 8 Down
- A low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems (plural)
- 9 Down