I’m really excited to share an embedded rows garden puzzle that you can solve right here on this site. My sincere thanks to the wonderful team at Amuse Labs, who’ve made it possible. Note that within each group of ‘rose blooms’ that comprise the garden, the clues are not in order, so you need to use the row answers to figure out where to plant each bloom.

If you prefer to solve on paper, pdfs of regular (bloom categories clued in the order in which they appear in the garden) and thorny versions (blooms clued out of order) are presented below.

If you’re not familiar with rows garden puzzles, the instructions for completion are below.

Answers fit into the puzzle in two ways. Row answers read horizontally from the lettered markers; each row contains two consecutive answers reading left to right (except Rows A and L, which contain one answer reading across the nine protruding spaces). Blooms are six-letter answers that fill the shaded and unshaded hexagons, reading either clockwise or counterclockwise. Bloom clues are divided into three lists: Light, Medium and Dark. Answers to Light clues go in hexagons with white centers; Medium answers go in the hexagons with gray centers; and Dark answers go in hexagons with black centers.

[NOTE: the first rows garden puzzle I posted, “Michael Phelps”, has been updated and can solved directly here on the site as well].