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Cottage Garden

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A few of the words

HOLLYHOCK
Hollyhocks (Alcea rosea) have been grown in cottage gardens since at least the 16th century, when they arrived in Europe along the Silk Road trading routes.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
FOXGLOVE
Every part of the foxglove is toxic, yet in 1785 physician William Withering identified its active compound, now called digitalis, as a life-saving heart medicine.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
DELPHINIUM
The name comes from the Greek word for dolphin, early botanists thought the flower's nectar spur looked like a dolphin's snout.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
PEONY
Peonies are famously long-lived; a single plant can bloom in the same spot for 100 years or more with very little attention from the gardener.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Cottage garden word search, free and large-print, where hollyhocks lean and foxgloves tower above a happy tumble of old-fashioned blooms.

About Cottage Garden

A cottage garden is barely a garden at all, it's a conversation between the gardener and whatever decides to grow. Hollyhocks prop themselves against sun-warmed stone, foxgloves rise in spires of dusky purple, and peonies spill open with a scent that stops you mid-path. Nothing is too tidy; the whole point is the beautiful, unruly abundance of it.

How to play

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    Find 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.
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    Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
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    It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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    Choose 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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