The Ultimate Flower Garden

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. A hand tool for lifting loose material (6)
  2. 4. A protective covering of rotting vegetable matter spread to reduce evaporation and soil erosion (5)
  3. 5. Any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus ___ with showy daisylike flowers (5)
  4. 7. Any of numerous bulbous perennial herbs (8)
  5. 8. Any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear ___ (4)
  6. 9. Large-flowered garden plant derived chiefly from the wild ___ of Europe and having velvety petals (5)
  7. 11. Any of various plants of the genus Syringa having large panicles of usually fragrant flowers (5)
  8. 12. Any of numerous plants of the genus ___ native chiefly to tropical and South Africa having (9)
  9. 14. The flower of a ___ plant (13)
  10. 16. Large genus of flowering herbs of temperate regions (5)

Down

  1. 1. Any of numerous tropical or subtropical American plants of the genus ___ grown for their showy (7)
  2. 3. Any of various ornamental climbing plants of the genus ___ usually having showy flowers (8)
  3. 6. East Asian perennial having large reddish-orange black-spotted flowers with reflexed petals (9)
  4. 10. A garden plant of the genus Antirrhinum having showy white or yellow or crimson flowers resembling (10)
  5. 13. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three (4)
  6. 15. Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually (5)