I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a garden centre British English (= where you can buy plants, trees etc )
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The garden centre stocks a wide variety of houseplants.
a garden flower
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Dahlias have become one of the best loved garden flowers.
a garden gate
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Ellie ran down the path towards the garden gate.
a garden path
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Emma came running up the garden path.
a garden pond British English
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How can I attract wildlife to my garden pond?
a garden/landscape designer (= for gardens )
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A landscape designer was commissioned to design the garden.
a vegetable garden/patch/plot
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Anna was digging in the vegetable garden.
botanical garden
city/garden etc wall
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the ancient city walls
front door/garden/porch etc (= at the front of a house )
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We walked up the front steps and into the reception area.
garden centre
garden city
garden gnome
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a garden gnome
garden party
garden plants (= plants that are grown in gardens )
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These butterflies feed on the flowers of several garden plants.
garden produce
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She had filled a basket with her garden produce.
garden soil
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Try planting them in compost rather than garden soil.
gardening gloves
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Gardening gloves protect your hands from being scratched or stung.
gardening tips
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Marie was always willing to share her gardening tips.
guerrilla gardening
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Guerrilla gardeners came late in the night and turned the area outside the building into a vegetable patch.
kitchen garden
landscape gardening
market garden
plant a field/garden/area etc (with sth)
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a hillside planted with fir trees
plant/garden/industrial etc debris
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Clean the ventilation ducts to remove dust and insect debris.
rock garden
secluded garden/spot/beach etc
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We sunbathed on a small secluded beach.
tea garden
the kitchen/bath/garden tap
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The water coming out of the kitchen tap had an odd smell.
zoological garden
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
back
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Running along that were the back gardens of a terrace of houses we must have driven by.
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He thought he was doing me a favor because it had taken over much of our tiny back garden .
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This was not only extremely kind, it was very convenient, as our back garden virtually backed on to their field.
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She started with ten pens in the back garden of her bungalow in Twyning near Tewkesbury.
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The back garden ended at a short steep scarp falling away to a small stream crossed only by a footbridge.
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Her body was found buried in the back garden of a house in Swindon where Main once lived.
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The back garden contains a variety of half-hardy plants for colour.
beautiful
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Using the evidence of extensive archaeology, a remarkable and beautiful garden has been created.
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I am pretending that I am creating a beautiful garden .
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Every beautiful garden has its secrets.
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The once beautiful gardens were nothing but dry brush, and the chicken coops were broken and falling down.
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Lesser known are its beautiful gardens in Stanley Park.
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Alton Towers, 10 miles away, is the largest leisure park in the country and combines a mini-Disneyland with beautiful gardens .
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Planting plans Designing a beautiful garden is no more difficult on clay than anywhere else.
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St Mary's has a busy harbour, and Tresco has a beautiful tropical garden .
botanical
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Founded in 1673, this small walled garden is the oldest botanical garden in the country after Oxford's.
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Her office looks out over the botanical gardens and small reflecting pool in front of the Capitol.
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Trees from every continent turn King's Park into a giant botanical garden .
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The mayor is talking about selling off everything from botanical gardens to the water system and garbage pickup.
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In the botanical gardens a huge tree had fallen and crushed a bus.
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Another neat toy: an on-line tour of botanical garden Web sites.
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Zoos, botanical gardens and some circuses claim they are serving conservation by breeding animals or plants in captivity.
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Armed only with a sketchbook, Olwen travels all over the country in search of botanical gardens and interesting conservatories.
formal
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Eighteenth-century maps of historic towns often show elaborate formal gardens behind the houses, but very few traces of these remain.
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Randall Lodge's attractive formal gardens stretched round the east and south-east aspects.
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In the mornings she walked in the formal garden .
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Steam enthusiasts may ride Britain's longest private railway and Hestercombe House will delight lovers of formal gardens .
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They can be simple and like wild roses, suitable for woodland gardens; or formal for town gardens.
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There was no formal garden to the house, no garden fence.
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To the West of the formal gardens is a paddock planted with a variety of trees and shrubs.
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The formal garden was designed by Gertrude Jekyll.
front
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The house was called Lilac Villa, a name no one used, though the front garden contained several ancient gnarled lilac bushes.
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They disappeared into the front garden of one of the houses.
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Soon we arrived at Tower House, a suburban-style dwelling with a large front garden .
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On the left was the neighbouring house, on the right the front garden of the farm.
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The brick walls and paving of the front garden are clean and tidy, but rather harsh.
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Mrs Grogan had seen a man half way up the sycamore tree in the Connons' front garden .
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Everyone got down very quickly as another shell exploded in the front garden of a cottage across the road.
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Twelve soldiers at least were in his small front garden and on the footpath.
large
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It has a large garden with fruit trees and a splendid mature walnut tree.
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The large , mature garden is always very much enjoyed by guests in summer.
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Soon we arrived at Tower House, a suburban-style dwelling with a large front garden .
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It bears so much fruit that it can still supply the appetites of 50 children and a large population of garden birds.
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As unexpected as the decoration is Peckover's large garden .
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Plums, peaches, nectarines St Julian A Fairly vigorous, best for large gardens or poor soils.
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There is a large garden restaurant where you can sit with drinks, snacks and meals.
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Walking home, he goes through one large garden gate, only to see the other one fall down.
rose
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She enjoys propagating, the rose garden contains pinks and martagon and regale lilies from seed.
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Make sure you put my urn in the rose garden .
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Gandhi the rice field, Tagore the rose garden .
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The Clintons are expected to turn this into a rose garden .
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He was King of Phrygia, the land of roses , and he had great rose gardens near his palace.
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One of the Trust's early summer glories is the rose garden at Mottisfont Abbey in Hampshire.
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Joe organized a beautiful private ceremony, and Delia was buried in his rose garden .
small
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Outside is a small garden pond.
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It is suitable for even the smallest gardens , and if you can only accommodate one daisy-flowered perennial it should be this.
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The original forest garden extended into further plots, an arboretum and a small peace garden.
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Twelve soldiers at least were in his small front garden and on the footpath.
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High railings guarded the small courtyard gardens , the gates of which were usually protected by push-button security-code entry locks.
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There is a small walled garden at the front.
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There was a small front garden with weed-filled flowerbeds on either side of the cracked centre path.
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They're ideal for small gardens and crop heavily.
walled
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You can take a day trip to Bodelwyddan Castle with its walled garden , aviary, maze and adventure woodland.
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Lovely walled garden giving complete privacy, barbecue etc.
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There is a small walled garden at the front.
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There had been a picture towards the back of the journal-a portrait of a walled garden .
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The house, dairy, farm buildings, walled garden and orchard show what life there was like eighty years ago.
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Prices on request Right: A rectangular concrete pool designed by Buckingham to make the most of a walled garden .
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Fragrance is particularly important in a walled or enclosed garden and both the lilies and the philadelphus will provide scent.
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She lives now in converted weaving cottages in Kilbarchan, a walled garden already rich in spring colours.
■ NOUN
centre
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A new garden centre has opened which specialises in plants which can't be bought anywhere else.
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Eventually it blossomed into a garden centre .
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Next step you would think is to go to the garden centre and look for holly bushes with boy and girl names?
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I recently saw them at my local garden centre .
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Although they always look so tempting on the garden centre shelf, they are known to be very hard to please.
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Locally, fleece may be available from your garden centre but do check the quality and price before buying.
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In fact garden centre granite would do, and is very cheap.
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From a busy garden centre , the company supplies roses, shrubs, trees and bedding plants, all at competitive prices.
centres
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Carters: Shops and garden centres only.
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Shops and garden centres are fully stocked with row upon row of tempting treasures to add to our gardens.
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Suitable netting is available from garden centres as well as by mail order.
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An onion set is a small onion which can be bought at garden centres or ordered from seed catalogues.
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The company is concerned to halt a growing environmental campaign to boycott peat sales from garden centres and superstores around the country.
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Mail order, shops and garden centres .
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I've not seen them in local garden centres , where can I obtain some?
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All of them should be easily obtainable from good garden centres .
city
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It favoured the second, advocating the establishment of garden cities surrounding London: dispersal and decentralization of both people and employment.
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One block in the middle of the Northeast garden city , Washington New Town, now stands completely empty.
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Reporting in 1935 it advocated the fullest adoption of the planned distribution of industry and population based on garden city development.
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In its early days the Association was primarily concerned with campaigning for garden cities .
gate
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Why did his knees creak like a garden gate when he sat down beside her?
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Walking home, he goes through one large garden gate , only to see the other one fall down.
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These are the Buddhist counterparts of the cherubim stationed by Yahweh at the garden gate .
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Once, I remember, she even lay down by the garden gate .
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Gates gone: Tyneside police are investigating a spate of thefts of wrought iron garden gates.
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The wherry pulled in and we disembarked at the great garden gate .
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An elderly couple were leaning over their garden gate .
herb
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Cliff is the cook, and loves the job, especially as he can use produce from the greenhouse and herb garden .
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Together they cultivate an herb garden with rosemary, basil and lavender.
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A Mint, in its variegated varieties, makes a colourful addition to flower borders as well as herb gardens .
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Over there is our herb garden , and here are some fruit trees, from which we are cultivating a new strain.
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Dalgliesh could glimpse what was obviously her herb garden planted in elegant terracotta pots carefully disposed to catch the sun.
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It has pretty herbaceous borders and an attractive paved herb garden , where on fine mornings breakfast is served.
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Our herb garden was designed, sown and planted by 10 and 11-year olds and has given pleasure to many people.
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We are very proud of our herb garden , and feel that every school should have one.
kitchen
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At the risk of sounding smug, my ornamental kitchen garden gave me no such problems.
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The food is freshly cooked using produce from the kitchen garden and local produce as much as possible.
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He was a long-haired tabby she had found in the kitchen garden , old and nearly dead from starvation.
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I got on with my kitchen garden .
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A great deal of work was done at that time in enlarging and landscaping the park, creating lakes and the kitchen gardens .
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Man and boy went off together in the direction of the kitchen garden .
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The kitchen garden has a large conservatory with an old vine and cucumber frames straight out of Beatrix Potter.
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He went to the gap in the hedge and saw Gary at the far end of the kitchen garden .
market
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It was built without delay, a short distance into Tennison Road, alongside a small market garden .
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In particular, millions of pounds of market garden produce will be destroyed by dust during the construction period.
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In addition, an expanding Kingston required increasing amounts of fruit and market garden produce which are currently the main products.
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The island of Porto Santo grows cereals, vines, figs, market garden produce, melons and pumpkins.
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Today it consists of a pub, several market gardens and a string of houses.
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The market garden is managed on a shared basis, as are the bees, whose honey is sold in the shop.
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Now they use them for arable cash crops and special market garden crops.
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The warm spring climate makes it possible to produce early market garden crops before those in other parts of Britain.
party
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I was at his recent garden party and I have actually shaken his hand.
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Joe even managed an invitation to a garden party given for the generalissimo and Madame Chiang.
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The garden party held in July, took place at the Palace of Holyrood House.
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I met her at a garden party in San Francisco the summer I got hepatitis.
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One could imagine her at a shires garden party or a race meeting.
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I emphasize that I have no wish to come across here as the skunk at the process improvement garden party .
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That I was the absentee hostess and nobody like the chocolate cake we serve at the garden parties .
path
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Laying bricks or paviors on a bed of sand is probably the easiest way of making a garden path .
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Elaine walked up the garden path and he followed her.
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The concrete garden path has been bricked over and vines adorn the white-painted exterior.
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And so they merely shook hands, and she walked off down the garden path to her door.
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Up the garden path and a frisson of unease: there is no house, but a vista of a majestic lake.
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But the storyteller has been using all his art to lead us up the garden path .
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Then one of them led him up the garden path to a shed.
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That is the garden path down which Bill and Ricky will come.
plant
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Ants often farm colonies of aphids on garden plants , feeding off their honeydew, while protecting the aphids from predators.
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Translated into reality, it means a self-contained sewage treatment garden plant and a haven for Britain's natural flora.
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These four varieties are ideal small garden plants , as they grow on a single stem and don't need pruning.
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Firstly we need some seeds to grow our garden plants from.
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And what about the seeds of your other garden plants ?
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The project aims to sort out which garden plants can be harmful, and to define just how toxic they really are.
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Stocks of potatoes, apples, strawberries as well as an array of garden plants are produced in this way.
rock
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They are bright and enchanting and look superb in a rock garden , at the front of a border or in pots.
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From water level as you approach through the rock garden it looks like one solid rock barrier.
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The initial approach starts right of centre and works diagonally left through the rock garden .
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She would buy white wrought-iron pieces with delicate tracery, and set them there, by the rock garden .
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Rare trees and shrubs, bluebells, rock garden . 3 wheelchairs available.
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The smaller kinds of daffodils and tulips are ideally suited to the rock garden or dry bed.
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Larch and spruce shelter nature's own rock garden with the forest floor carpeted with many species of wild flowers.
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Best used alone rather than in mixed bedding, in rock gardens , containers, &038; clumps at front of borders.
shed
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The door of a garden shed had swung open.
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But I knew it was best not to confess what I had seen inside her garden shed .
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Under-sink cupboards and garden sheds should be kept permanently locked.
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A police search of his home revealed 200,000 documents in his garden shed .
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Since then, he claims, he's been repeatedly threatened, and now his garden shed has been daubed with graffiti.
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Those seen in the spring will have hibernated over the winter in garden sheds or hollow trees.
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Make a note of the symptoms, and pin it up in the garden shed - the remedies are self-evident.
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But what if you can only afford a garden shed ?
wall
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The cart went along by the garden wall , and round to the back door.
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Suddenly from every house, from the beached ships, from every garden wall MacIans were leaping out.
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To try and get to it by going round outside the garden wall meant ploughing through waist-high nettles and clumps of bramble.
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There is no cover for damage to terraces, patios, driveways, footpaths, garden walls and hedges.
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The sound came from over the garden wall and I knew that no-one in that part of Gigant Street kept chicken.
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Our escorts, both dressed in blazers and boaters jumped on-board - and promptly steered us straight for a garden wall .
■ VERB
grow
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Firstly we need some seeds to grow our garden plants from.
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She must have all six kids cleaning the house, or growing food in the garden .
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Little would grow in the garden except ferns and laurels.
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Cabbage for fall and winter should be growing briskly in garden soil by the end of September.
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A hardy annual, it can be grown in any garden where a few patches here and there can be a delight.
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They moved in recently and paved half of my back yard, where I wanted to grow a garden in the spring.
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Of trees growing in a garden outside window.
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They chucked the peach stones over the parapet so that peach trees would grow in the garden next year and surprise everyone.
lead
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In the narrow passage that led through to the garden , they came upon Rafiq.
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We nodded at the mailboxes in, the narrow, tunnel-like passageway leading to the garden .
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How I led him out of the garden and into a rough and stony place where naught but thistles and brambles grow!
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He walked, slowly and stiffly, towards the ramp that led from the garden to the street.
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Door to: Inner lobby: Door leading to Carport with garden beyond.
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But the storyteller has been using all his art to lead us up the garden path.
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Then one of them led him up the garden path to a shed.
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Instinctively, she headed for the door that led out into the garden .
overlook
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And as the camera glides, it passes a couple sitting on a single, simple wooden bench overlooking the garden .
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They overlook the gardens and face the waterfront.
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It lies against a stone wall, shielded by birch and fur, overlooking a garden of remembrance, containing more memorials.
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The other two overlook a stunning rooftop garden .
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She was lying near a window overlooking a garden full of sunshine and green.
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On another day in Kyoto we sat nearly an hour on the tatami in a tearoom overlooking an exquisite garden .
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Redlands Here you can relax in a pine lodge overlooking a lovely garden , or sun yourself on the semi-circular sun terrace.
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Elsewhere, a beautifully-equipped gymnasium, featuring a bank of television sets, overlooks the gardens .
set
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Standbridge Hotel E A highly individual place to stay. Set in substantial mature gardens and possessing a quiet and relaxed atmosphere.
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Act 3 is set in the garden of a seaside monastery.
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There is a swimming pool with terrace set amidst the sunny garden .
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There is an attractive pool and children's pool set within landscaped gardens and surrounded by a sun terrace with sunloungers.
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We watched six couples getting hitched in the tranquil setting of the garden gazebo before having their pictures taken on the beach.
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Traditional style cottages and villas set amongst extravagant gardens - secluded, private and relaxed.
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Opposite is the War Memorial designed by Lutyens and set in delightful gardens .
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Some rooms are in the annexe and bungalows behind the main building set in their own gardens .
walk
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Later they walked in the garden together, while Basil worked at the portrait.
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In the film, transferred to video by my technologically excitable family, Poppa is walking in his backyard garden .
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In the evening after milking she walked in the garden alone, thinking about it.
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Jane and Rochester walk in the garden to soothe their nerves.
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She and I walked in the ancient garden , talking quietly about our childhood meetings.
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The first man walks in the garden on his way to a tennis date.
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Elaine walked up the garden path and he followed her.
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In the mornings she walked in the formal garden .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
common or garden
lead sb up the garden path
the bottom of a road/garden etc
walled garden/city/town etc
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Accommodation comprises 110 twin bedded bungalows and 15 Duplex Suites each with its own shady terrace and small walled garden.
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At Leicester the market place occupied the whole of the south-eastern quarter of the walled town.
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Founded in 1673, this small walled garden is the oldest botanical garden in the country after Oxford's.
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Like the people of Ferghana, its occupants were a settled people living in walled towns.
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She lives now in converted weaving cottages in Kilbarchan, a walled garden already rich in spring colours.
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The walled garden too had been carefully maintained.
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The existence of walled towns and castles created two problems.
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The house, dairy, farm buildings, walled garden and orchard show what life there was like eighty years ago.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a vegetable garden
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At night, however, the garden is difficult to appreciate through the tinted windows.
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High railings guarded the small courtyard gardens, the gates of which were usually protected by push-button security-code entry locks.
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It has a secluded garden bordered by a stream.
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Red and purple salvias blend well to give a sense of harmony in the garden .
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The grass in the garden was uncut and came up to her calves.
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When Charles moved in to Highgrove there was practically no garden at all, just acres of lawn and some box hedges.
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
common or garden
the bottom of a road/garden etc
walled garden/city/town etc
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Accommodation comprises 110 twin bedded bungalows and 15 Duplex Suites each with its own shady terrace and small walled garden.
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At Leicester the market place occupied the whole of the south-eastern quarter of the walled town.
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Founded in 1673, this small walled garden is the oldest botanical garden in the country after Oxford's.
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Like the people of Ferghana, its occupants were a settled people living in walled towns.
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She lives now in converted weaving cottages in Kilbarchan, a walled garden already rich in spring colours.
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The walled garden too had been carefully maintained.
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The existence of walled towns and castles created two problems.
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The house, dairy, farm buildings, walled garden and orchard show what life there was like eighty years ago.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Stephen's mom loves to garden in her spare time.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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She doesn't garden you know.
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Topping the list of my favorite prose pieces are Kenyon's incredible hiking and gardening essays.