noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
celebrity chef/gardener etc
gardener/cakemaker/chef etc extraordinaire
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
amateur
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Their nature is multifarious, but they are mainly from other professionals in other organizations or from informed amateur botanists or gardeners .
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They pass on basic gardening skills to Ray Gravel, the ex-Rugby Union international and keen amateur gardener .
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New series providing accessible introductions for amateur gardeners .
head
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It's another relic, still in use, from the head gardener Charles Beckett's days.
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Since Beaumont's days, there have been just ten head gardeners down the generations.
keen
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At home he was a keen gardener winning many prizes for his efforts.
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Mummy is a keen gardener , and his father loves flowers.
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They pass on basic gardening skills to Ray Gravel, the ex-Rugby Union international and keen amateur gardener .
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He was a very keen gardener .
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Finally, for keen gardeners there is the opportunity to recreate at home what you have seen in National Trust gardens.
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He is a keen gardener , and expressed great pleasure at the choice of present.
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Charles Wade was also a keen gardener .
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A speechreader was chatting about roses to a keen gardener .
■ NOUN
landscape
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On the forecourt stood a horse-drawn van on which was painted the name of a firm of landscape gardeners in flowery script.
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From the mid-1850s Milner worked as an independent landscape gardener .
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His brother Bartholomew was a horticulturist and landscape gardener in Walham Green, Fulham.
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Oh, it is the landscape gardeners and a very nice job they're doing of it.
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During the last week, landscape gardeners had begun a massive clearance of the overgrown grounds.
market
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First came the farmers and then more specialist cultivators: market gardeners , nurserymen and florists.
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As an innkeeper and market gardener near Sinope, Phocas would give his excess crops to the poor.
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Once home, Brian got a job as a market gardener and asked Jean to marry him.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be something of a gardener/an expert etc
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Alfred Walter is something of an expert on Viennese music particularly that of the Johann Strauss era.
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In his own way he is something of an expert on the private lives of actresses.
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Richard Holmes was something of an expert at the game, but he ended up as a down-and-out by the end.
jobbing builder/gardener/printer etc
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He was a jobbing gardener by trade.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As an innkeeper and market gardener near Sinope, Phocas would give his excess crops to the poor.
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But, as every good gardener knows, healthy plant growth depends very much on the fertility and structure of the soil.
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Commercial interests like Time-Life and Burpee have established free sites aimed at gardeners.
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It's another relic, still in use, from the head gardener Charles Beckett's days.
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On the Move While we are still all romantics at heart we gardeners are also practical.
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Some gardeners control black rot with sulfur sprays.
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Some shade trees provide their own winter show, and gardeners should count themselves lucky to have them.