Garden

Garden

A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The garden can incorporate both natural and man-made materials. The most common form today is known as a residential garden, but the term garden has traditionally been a more general one. Zoos, which display wild animals in simulated natural habitats, were formerly called zoological gardens. Western gardens are almost universally based on plants, with garden often signifying a shortened form of botanical garden.

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Famous quotes containing the word garden:

    “My garden is run wild!
    Where shall I plant anew—
    For my bed, that once was covered with thyme,
    Is all overrun with rue?”
    —Mrs. Fleetwood Habergham (d. 1703)

    “Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden that its fragrance may be wafted abroad. Let my beloved come to his garden, and eat its choicest fruits.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Song of Solomon 4:16.

    “Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)