garden

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1 different kinds of garden
2 parts of a garden
3 working in a garden
see also FLOWER, PLANT, TREE, VEGETABLE

1 different kinds of garden
- a piece of land where flowers and vegetables are grown: garden (AmE yard)
Let's go out in the garden. ◎ a well-kept (= tidy) garden ◎ The garden has become rather overgrown (= with plants which have grown big and untidy) .
- a public garden with grass, trees and open spaces: park
- a garden where plants are grown for scientific study: botanical gardens (noun plural)
- the land which belongs to and surrounds a large building is its grounds (noun plural)
The grounds are open to the public.
- a concrete or stone area behind a house, which has a wall or fence around it: backyard
- a small piece of public land that can be rented for growing vegetables on: allotment
We grow all our vegetables on our allotment.

2 parts of a garden
- a garden at the front of a house: front garden
- a garden at the back of a house: back garden
- an area next to a house where people can sit, eat, etc: patio (plural patios)
- the end of a garden that is furthest from the house: the bottom of the garden
There's a river at the bottom of the garden.
- a piece of ground in a garden where flowers, vegetables, etc are grown: (flower) bed
a rose bed
- a small piece of land where you grow vegetables: vegetable plot
- an area of grass that is regularly cut: lawn
I'm going to mow the lawn (= cut the grass) .
※ more on grass and lawns GRASS
- a small wooden building for keeping garden tools: garden shed
- a building made of glass in which plants are grown: greenhouse
- a way through a garden where people can walk: path
- a garden may be separated from another garden by a hedge, a fencewall

3 working in a garden
- the work that you do in a garden: gardening (noun U)
I'm going to do some gardening. ◎ gardening gloves (= gloves used for gardening)
- a person who works in a garden: gardener
She's a keen gardener. ◎ Do you have a gardener?
- to move earth, make a hole to plant sth in, etc: dig* (sth)
to dig the flower beds
- to remove a plant, etc from the earth by digging: dig* sth up
to dig up a shrub
- to put plants, seeds, etc in the ground to grow: plant sth
We've been buying flowers and shrubs to plant in the front garden.
- to fill a garden, area of land, etc with plants: plant sth (with sth)
a bed planted with tulips and daffodils
※ more on growing plants PLANT
- to remove weeds (= wild plants that are not wanted in a garden): weed (sth), do* the weeding
I spent the afternoon weeding the strawberry bed. ◎ I wish I had a proper hoe to do the weeding with.
- to smooth the soil, collect up leaves, stones, etc: rake sth (up)
to rake up the grass cuttings
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- a place where plants, seeds, gardening equipment, etc are sold: garden centre
- if you are good at growing plants, you have (informal) green fingers