Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.
A few of the words
- LOPPERS
- Loppers can cut stems up to about 2 inches thick, the long handles give enough leverage to tackle branches that shears simply can't reach.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- DEADHEAD
- Deadheading, removing spent flowers, redirects a plant's energy from setting seed into producing new blooms, often extending the display by weeks.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- BYPASS
- Bypass pruners work like scissors, with two curved blades that pass each other; the cleaner cut they leave helps wounds heal faster than the crushing action of anvil types.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- SUCKER
- A sucker is a vigorous shoot that sprouts from the rootstock below a graft union, left unchecked on a rose or fruit tree, it can eventually overwhelm the grafted variety above.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Pruning & Trimming: a free large-print word search
Pruning & trimming word search, free and large-print. Shears in hand, a shapely shrub waiting, the satisfying snip of a clean cut.
About Pruning & Trimming
Few things satisfy like stepping back and seeing a shrub newly shaped, wayward shoots brought in, a hedge line gone crisp, the spent blooms of summer clipped away. Pruning is one of the oldest of garden skills, equal parts art and timing: the right cut at the right angle coaxes a plant into stronger, fuller growth. From the light snip of bypass shears on a rose stem to the heavier swing of loppers through a woody bough, every tool has its moment in the gardener's year.
How to play
- 1Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last — the trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
- 2Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
- 3It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
- 4Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps — never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.
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