Collocations for "garden"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "garden" in context.
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garden
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [flower, vegetable, kitchen, herb, rose] garden
- a [botanical, botanic] garden
- UK: in my [back, front] garden
- US: in my [back, front] yard
- [plant, grow] a garden
- grows [flowers, vegetables, roses] in her garden
- water the garden
- in the Garden of Eden
- a garden in [the wilderness, a dry region]
- is out (working) in the garden
- UK: [planting, playing, sunbathing] in the garden
- UK: [planting, playing, sunbathing] in the yard
- [weed, decorate, landscape, mow] the garden
- build a [shed, hut] in the garden
- have always wanted a garden
- have [dinner, a barbecue] in the garden
- vulgar, slang: [see, shave, trim] her lady garden
- a garden [hoe, shovel, till]
- garden [furniture, products, maintenance, services]
- the home and garden [store, department]
- home and garden supplies
- talking over the garden fence
- a garden city
- garden for [fun, a hobby]
- gardening [fruits, vegetables, herbs]
- garden [ecological, organic, bio] [fruits]
- [loved, began] to garden
- garden in retirement
- gardening with [her children, the grandchildren]
- garden and landscape
'garden' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
adequate
- annual
- bank
- basil
- bay
- bed
- beer
- beyond
- blossom
- burrow
- butterfly
- cabbage
- canopy
- chain
- chipmunk
- common
- complement
- composite
- crap
- cucumber
- currant
- daisy
- debris
- den
- dew
- dig
- dinner
- dispose
- double
- enchanted
- enclosed
- expansion
- fence
- flower
- fountain
- fox
- gate
- gaze
- grass
- grow
- hedge
- hoe
- home
- hose
- house
- implement
- in
- kitchen
- ladder
- landscape