Garden Plot

A puzzle that's anything but garden-variety.
A delightful crossword rooted in gardening, botany, and literature, with plenty of clever wordplay and puns sprouting up throughout the grid.
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Across

  • 2A
    Minty leaf used in Japanese cuisine
  • 5A
    ___ upon a thyme?
  • 6A
    Shakespeare's forest in "As You Like It"
  • 8A
    Flower's colorful flourish
  • 9A
    Flowering spire in a garden
  • 11A
    Junction on a stem
  • 12A
    Name that means 'fragrance' in Arabic

Down

  • 1D
    Protective case for a pea
  • 2D
    Where hair roots are found?
  • 3D
    Mary Lennox, in "The Secret Garden," for one
  • 4D
    It holds up the flower... or the wine glass
  • 7D
    Patron of a botanical garden, perhaps
  • 8D
    Source of light or a tulip
  • 10D
    Morning drops on the grass