garden

noun ⇨ See also ↑yard

ADJECTIVE

▪ beautiful, lovely, pretty

▪ lush

▪ landscaped, manicured

▪

a large country house with beautiful landscaped gardens

▪ big, large

▪ small, tiny

▪ back, front (both esp. BrE)

▪

They hang out washing in their back gardens. (BrE)

▪ backyard (AmE)

▪

These flowers brighten up backyard gardens all over the country.

▪ flower, herb, kitchen, rose, vegetable

▪

Most of the hotel's salads are grown in its own kitchen garden.

▪ rock, water

▪

a rock garden with an astonishing variety of alpine plants

▪ cottage, country (esp. BrE), formal, town (BrE), walled

▪

plants suitable for a small town garden

▪ community, private, public

▪ botanic, botanical

▪ beer

VERB + GARDEN

▪ create, design, lay out (esp. BrE), plan

▪

She has created a garden out of a wilderness.

▪

We got someone to design the garden for us.

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The garden is laid out in 18th-century style.

▪ plant

▪

We planted the garden with wild flowers.

▪ dig, do (esp. BrE), tend, tidy (esp. BrE), tidy up (esp. BrE), weed

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Weekends were spent tending the garden.

▪ cultivate, grow (AmE), keep (esp. AmE), maintain

▪

Old Mr Kenyon still keeps a garden.

▪ water

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Maggie unwound the hose and watered the garden.

▪ overlook

▪

The house overlooks the garden.

GARDEN + NOUN

▪ flower, plant

▪ soil

▪ pest

▪

aphids, one of the commonest garden pests

▪ hose, tools

▪ gate, path, shed, wall

▪ gnome (= for decoration)

▪ furniture, seat

▪ centre/center (esp. BrE), store (AmE)

▪

We got the gravel at our local garden store.

▪ party

PREPOSITION

▪ in a/the garden, into a/the garden

▪

Mary's out in the garden.

PHRASES

▪ the bottom of the garden (esp. BrE), the end of the garden