Gardens

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Social insect living in organized colonies (3)
  2. 4. Living thing that grows in soil and makes its own food (5)
  3. 6. Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually (5)
  4. 8. A playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it (5)
  5. 9. A wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth (11)
  6. 12. Any plant of the genus Helianthus having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow (9)
  7. 14. A plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms (6)
  8. 15. Freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral (5)

Down

  1. 1. Any of numerous varieties of Narcissus plants having showy often yellow flowers with (8)
  2. 3. Any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear ___ (4)
  3. 4. A worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs (plural) (7)
  4. 5. A container with a handle and a spout with a perforated nozzle (11)
  5. 7. Annual or biennial or perennial herbs having showy flowers (5)
  6. 10. Cutlery used for serving and eating food (4)
  7. 11. Insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying (6)
  8. 13. Any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida (4)