Garden Beds

Drag little flower beds onto your garden plot. Fill a whole row or column and it bursts into tulips, daisies, bluebells and alliums, Bumble the bee flies over to visit, and the flowers are picked, leaving room to plant again.

Three power-ups make every garden different. Fill a line with just one kind of flower for a Bloom Burst that blows the rows beside it into bloom too. Make 3 blooms in a row for a Seed Bomb you can drop anywhere to clear a 3 by 3 patch, stones and all. Bloom two lines with one bed and the next bed turns into rainbow flowers that match every kind.

Play Free play until the garden is full, or work through 20 Levels, each with one goal a child can read: make 4 lines bloom, make a Bloom Burst, clear the stones, use a Seed Bomb. Progress is saved, and any level you have opened can be played again.

There is no clock and no hurry. Learning mode, on by default, names each bed's shape, counts its squares and counts the flowers you grow. Plays with a mouse, a finger or the keyboard (1, 2, 3 to pick a bed, 4 for a Seed Bomb, arrows to move, Space to plant).