Home & Garden

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Special day of celebration or time off (plural) (8)
  2. 3. A protective covering of rotting vegetable matter spread to reduce evaporation and soil erosion (5)
  3. 5. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers (7)
  4. 7. Colorful blooms that grow on plants (7)
  5. 10. A visual representation produced on a surface (plural) (8)
  6. 11. Working as a ___ gardener (11)
  7. 12. Tall plant with a trunk and branches (4)
  8. 13. The cultivation of plants (9)
  9. 14. Green plant covering lawns (5)

Down

  1. 2. To make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc (10)
  2. 3. To cut with a blade or mower (6)
  3. 4. Apparatus for supplying artificial ___ effects for the stage or a film (8)
  4. 6. Room where food is cooked (7)
  5. 8. A ___ in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax (10)
  6. 9. A low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems (plural) (6)