aMaizing Plant Disease Game

If you can’t get out in the garden, play some games until the rain (or the snow) stops. Suzanne Elvidge with ten gardening and plant games.

All games are free downloads or free to play.

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To play a game, simply click on its name. If you are a parent, we advise you to try the game and the site it's on first before letting your kids play them, to make sure you're happy. (And, don't forget, you can also find great games for kids in our own Global Gang area)

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The Great Plant Escape
Help Detective LePlant, Bud and Sprout unravel plant mysteries, and learn about plants and growing. And you can even play this one in Spanish.

Bloomin’ Gardens
The garden is growing fast – move the plants to be in rows of five or more to clear some space. However, there must be a clear path to move the plant, and more new plants grow every time you move an old one.

Garden colouring book
Simply click on the colour and then click on parts of the picture (have to say, pink peas look very odd…)

The Garden Game
Designed as an English teaching tool, you type in the names of the objects you see, and click ‘check’. The more you get right, the prettier the garden gets.

How Does Your Garden Grow
Help Chris to keep his garden watered (using a watering can of course, not a hosepipe). Look out for the wellies, they help you get to the plants more quickly.

Plant Maker
Click on plant parts to make your own plant.

aMaizing Plant Disease Game
Grow your own maize crop by picking a variety, fertilising it, and controlling disease by applying fungicide. I successfully managed to make a loss!

Interactive Plant Quiz
Did you listen in your biology lessons at school? If not, you might need to do some revision.

Flower Garden
Click on ‘plant’, select your flower and plant your seeds. Then click on ‘grow’ and watch it all happen (if only it was really that easy).

Garden Tools Concentration Puzzle
Click cards to find the matching tools. When you’ve finished, click the photo to start again.

And if you actually want to learn how to garden, try Alan Titchmarsh’s course.

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