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noun ADJ. beautiful, lovely, pretty | big, large | small, tiny | back, front people hanging out washing in their back gardens | 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 | botanical, cottage, formal, landscaped, public, town, walled a large country house with beautiful landscaped gardens plants suitable for a small town garden a lovely Victorian walled garden VERB + GARDEN create, design, lay out, plan, plant creating a garden out of a wilderness We got someone to design the garden for us. The garden is laid out in eighteenth century style. | plant We planted the garden with herbs and wild flowers. | dig, do, tend, tidy (up), weed Weekends were spent doing the garden. GARDEN + NOUN flower, plant | pest aphids, one of the commonest garden pests | tools | gate, path, shed, wall | furniture, seat | centre We got the gravel at our local garden centre. PREP. in/into a/the ~ Mary's out in the garden. PHRASES the bottom/end of a garden
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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garden
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + garden
overgrown
(= covered with plants that have grown in an uncontrolled way )
• The garden is getting rather overgrown.
well-kept/tidy
British English ( also neat American English )
• The hotel is set in a well-kept garden.
untidy
• There was a small untidy garden behind the house.
the front garden
British English (= at the front of a house )
• Their house had a small front garden.
the back garden
British English (= behind a house )
• The children are playing in the back garden.
a flower/rose garden
(= a garden planted with flowers/roses )
• The cottage was surrounded by a flower garden.
a kitchen garden
British English (= where you grow fruit and vegetables )
• The kitchen garden supplies vegetables to the manor house.
a vegetable/herb garden
(= where vegetables/herbs are grown )
• Rows of lettuces had been sown in the vegetable garden.
a rock garden
(= a garden with rocks that have plants growing between them )
• She helped me choose plants for the rock garden.
verbs
water the garden
• It hasn’t rained for a week – I should water the garden.
weed the garden
(= remove unwanted wild plants )
• She was outside weeding the garden.
plant a garden
• They planted a beautiful rose garden in her memory.
garden + NOUN
a garden shed
(= a small building in the garden for storing tools and equipment )
• We keep the lawnmower in the garden shed.
garden tools
(= tools that you use for digging, planting etc in the garden )
• Choose the right garden tool and you’ll do the job properly.
a garden centre
British English , a garden center American English (= a shop selling plants and things for the garden )
• I bought the plants at the garden centre.
garden furniture
(= chairs and tables used in a garden )
• Garden furniture sells well when the weather is warm.
a garden hose
(= a long rubber tube used for watering a garden )
• He accidentally left the garden hose running.
a garden pond
(= a small area of water in a garden )
• The garden pond was full of fish.
a garden gnome
(= a stone or plastic figure in a garden, which looks like a little old man with a pointed hat )
• Somebody had stolen one of their garden gnomes.
the garden gate
(= the gate between a garden and the street )
• Martin was waiting by the garden gate.
a garden path
• Elaine walked up the garden path and into the house.
garden waste
(= grass, leaves etc that you have cut and do not want )
• The brown bin is for garden waste.
phrases
the bottom of the garden
British English (= the end of the garden, away from the house )
• There was a trampoline at the bottom of the garden.
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