garden

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From Middle English gardyn, garden, from Anglo-Norman gardin, from Frankish *gardin-, oblique stem of *gardō (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Germanic *gardô (“enclosure, garden, house”), whence also inherited English yard. (compare Old French jart alongside jardin, Medieval Latin gardīnus). Doublet of jardin. Displaced Old English wyrttūn.
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian gard, Low German Goorn, Dutch gaard, gaarde, German Garten, Icelandic garður, French jardin, Spanish jardín, Italian giardino, Sicilian jardinu.

tuin

piece of land outside with flowers and plants

gumno

area behind a barn for fruits and vegetables

a garden party

a garden path

a garden spade

The garden parties of pre-1914 were something to be remembered. Everyone was dressed up to the nines, high-heeled shoes, muslin frocks with blue sashes, large leghorn hats with drooping roses. There were lovely ices […] with every kind of cream cake, of sandwich, of éclair, and peaches, muscat grapes, and nectarines.

1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 5, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.

(attributive) Taking place in, or used in, such a garden.

(cartomancy) The twentieth Lenormand card.

Behind the tangled garden of microphones that had sprouted on the lectern, Goldwater spoke softly and casually about his family.

1965, Charles McDowell, Campaign Fever: The National Folk Festival, from New Hampshire to November, 1964, Morrow, page 11:

Blow on my garden [speaking of her genitalia], so the spices of it may flow out. Let my Beloved come into His garden [her pubic area] and eat His pleasant fruits.

1995, Lee Tyler, Biblical Sexual Morality and What About Pornography? viewed at etext.org on 9 May 2006

N.B. From a commentary on Song of Solomon 4:16, which was written in Hebrew c. 950 BC; book footnotes are shown here within brackets. Many scholars disagree with this Biblical interpretation, which is included as evidence of the word's usage in 1995 rather than the intended meaning of Biblical Hebrew גַּן (gan) in 950 BC.

c. 2004, Hair Care Down There, Inc, The History of Hair Removal viewed at haircaredownthere.com on 9 May 2006 -
Primping and pruning the secret garden might seem like a totally 21st century concept, but the fact is women have gotten into below-the-belt grooming since before the Bronze Age.

(slang) Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.


garden

en-verb

garden (third-person singular simple present gardens, present participle gardening, simple past and past participle gardened)

gardens (present singular third-person)
gardening (participle present)
gardened (participle past)
gardened (past)

I love to garden—this year I'm going to plant some daffodils.

(intransitive, chiefly Canada, US) To grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.

bahçe işi ile/işiyle meşgul olmak/uğraşmak

(intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.


rosarium

From Latin rosārium. Doublet of rosary and Rosario.


rose garden

(literally) A garden devoted primarily to roses.


orangery

/ˈɒrɪndʒərɪ/

From French orangerie; equivalent to orange + -ery.

A greenhouse in which orange trees are grown.


greenhouse

From green + house ("house for growing greens"), in reference to the produce grown within.

(climatology) A hot state in global climate.


arboretum

en-noun

arboretum (plural arboretums or arboreta)

/ɑː(ɹ)bəˈɹiːtəm/

Borrowed from Latin arborētum (“place with trees growing, plantation of trees”), from arbor (“tree”).

bor

Coordinate term: floretum

A place where many varieties of tree are grown for research, educational, and ornamental purposes.


hotbed

Near-synonym: hotbox

Tomato seedlings will be ready to transplant from the hotbed to the coldframe in 12 to 18 days after sowing the seed, depending upon the amount of sunshine and the care given the bed.

1924, Erval Jackson Newcomer, M. A. Yothers, Warren Draper Whitcomb, Control of the Codling Moth in the Pacific Northwest, page 11:

A low bed of earth covered with glass, and heated with rotting manure, used for the germination of seeds and the growth of tender plants, like a miniature hothouse.


back garden

Afterwards, Gareth Southgate conjured up the modern English pastoral when he said he was glad to have delivered goals for a public watching at home on a “warm Sunday afternoon”. A great vision of barbecues ablaze, televisions repositioned and six times a boozy roar across the back gardens.

2018 June 24, Sam Wallace, “Harry Kane scores hat-trick as England hit Panama for six to secure World Cup knock-out qualification”, in Telegraph (UK), retrieved 2018-06-24:


rockery

A section of a garden made from decorative rocks and alpine plants.


conservatory

Anglicized form of French conservatoire; ultimately equivalent to Etymology 1

A large greenhouse or hothouse for the display of plants

оранже́рия

a greenhouse or hothouse for the display of plants


glasshouse

From Middle English glasehows, glashous, glashows; equivalent to glass + house.

people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

A greenhouse, especially one for commercial use.


flowerbed

A part of a garden or park where flowers are grown.


hothouse

From Middle English hothous, equivalent to hot + house.

Kruban is a tidally-locked Venusian hothouse, its surface perpetually obscured by clouds of sulfur and carbon dioxides.

2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Kruban:


parterre

Borrowed from French parterre (“on the ground”), from par (“on”) + terre (“ground”).

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Parterre (theater audience)
Taplow

The window opened towards a most lovely garden, whose smooth turf and gorgeous parterres swept down to the river.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Sir Robert Walpole and House”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 238:

(horticulture) A flowerbed, particularly an elevated one.

Parham House, near Pulborough in West Sussex, has a four-acre walled garden that was restored in the Twenties and has been maintained at a high level ever since. It is divided into four areas, one of which is filled by the cut-flower borders and a box-enclosed parterre. […] It is traditional in a parterre to mix flowers and veg, but this relaxed jungle of productive plants, packed in tight together, is lusher and more beautiful than the more usual Villandry style, where single or pairs of plants are used.

2015 August 29, Sarah Raven, “The stately home garden where you can pick-and-eat all summer [print version: Pick-and-eat planting for the modern parterre, page 5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), archived from the original on 2015-09-03:

(horticulture) A garden with paths between such flowerbeds.

(theater) A part of the section of theater seats located on the ground floor, on the same level as the orchestra.

The part of the ground-floor section nearest the orchestra and the stage; the stalls.

(British) The part of the ground-floor section behind the stalls and underneath the galleries; the pit.

That was Selwyn's first encounter with the Ruthvens. A short time afterward at the opera Gerald dragged him into a parterre to say something amiable to one of the amiable débutante Craig girls—and Selwyn found himself again facing Alixe.

1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:


truck garden

As the home house people (the industrious part of them at least) might want ground for their truck patches, they might, for this purpose, cultivate what would be cleared. But I would have the ground from the cross fence by the Spring, quite round by the Wharf, first grubbed, before the (above mentioned) is attempted.

1792 November 4, George Washington, The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources: 1745-1799, volume 32:

it is not strange that in the first years of our new life we began at the top instead of at the bottom; that a seat in Congress or the state legislature was more sought than real estate or industrial skill; that the political convention or stump speaking had more attractions than starting a dairy farm or truck garden.

1901, Booker T. Washington, chapter 14, in Up From Slavery: An Autobiography:

(chiefly US) Synonym of market garden, a garden whose produce is mostly intended for sale.


botanical garden

en-noun

botanical garden (plural botanical gardens)

A place where a variety of plants are grown, primarily for scientific or educational reasons, but are normally open to the public, and include ornamental plants from around the world.

حَدِيقَة نَبَاتِيَّة

a place where a variety of plants are grown for scientific reasons


market garden

Descending a narrow tree-lined lane the carriage passed into a leisurely winding road, bounded by market-gardens and the River Val.

1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 5

(chiefly UK) A garden whose produce is mostly intended for sale.

horta

a garden in which vegetables are raised for sale at a market

pleasure ground

section of a large garden not intended for edible plants

vegetable garden

garden or section of garden for edible plants intended for personal or household use

orchard

farm, garden, or section of garden for trees bearing edible fruit


kitchen garden

vegetable garden
vegetable garden#English

(chiefly UK) Synonym of vegetable garden.


fernery

My aunt especially loved the smaller fern houses, the ferneries.

1997, Oliver Sacks, The Island of the Colorblind:

A specialized garden for the cultivation and display of ferns.


walled garden

A long time ago, back before Al Gore invented the Internet, there were three big kids on the online block, each of which ran its own proprietary online service. America Online, Prodigy and CompuServe each had a "walled garden" of sorts for their customers.

2000 September 4, “AOL's 'Walled Garden'”, in Wall Street Journal:

AOL tried to provide a walled garden for all their subscribers in the early 1990s.

2007, Wes Simpson, Howard Greenfield, IPTV and Internet video, →ISBN, page 39:

When you deal with iPhones and iPads (and the iCloud, iMacs, iTVs, iPods, and all those other iThingies), you're living in a walled garden. Apple controls it from the beginning to end.

2016, Woody Leonhard, Windows 10 All-In-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 885:

The walled garden made AOL money, some of it real, but also hastened the site's loss of allure to the Internet, whose open design was the opposite of AOL's, and which was by now growing a greater variety of things to see and do.

2017, Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, Atlantic Books, →ISBN:

The content sludge is also present in Big Tech’s plans to reimagine search as an interactive, chatbot-powered walled garden.

2023 May 17, Charlie Warzel, “Here’s How AI Will Come for Your Job”, in The Atlantic:

(figurative, media, technology) A closed platform for content or services controlled by a single carrier or service provider, typically requiring subscription to access.


pinery

The record weight for pinery-grown pineapples was an astonishing fourteen pounds, twelve ounces—a weight that no imported pineapple could achieve. Pineapples fit neatly into the national crazes for natural things in England,[…]

2014 May 26, David Dewitt, Precious Cargo: How Foods From the Americas Changed The World, Catapult, →ISBN:

while Margam was exceptional in the scale of its orangery, it was not alone […] There was, for example, a peach house at Stradey Castle, a melon house and vinery at Nanteos, while Middleton Hall had both a peach house and a pinery. Pineapples were particularly prized because of their flavour and spectacular appearance.

2016 December 5, Alan Wilson, Comfort, Pleasure and Prestige: Country-house Technology in West Wales 1750-1930, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 116:

A hothouse or (tropical) area used as a plantation for the cultivation of pineapple plants (genus Ananas) and production of their homonymous fruit.


green roof

A roof of a house or other building which is covered with soil and grass, plants, trees, or other landscaping materials.

groen dak

roof of a house or other building which is covered with soil and grass, plants, trees, etc.

A roof of a house or other building on which solar panels, solar hot water collectors, wind powered turbines, or other natural energy collectors are placed.

A roof of a house or other building which is designed to collect rainfall for use in gardens, lawns, or as drinking water.


herbary

/ˈɜː(ɹ)bəɹi/

An Herbary, for furnishing domestic medicines, always made a part of our ancient gardens

1774-1781, Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry:


victory garden

A kitchen garden planted in wartime to reduce the pressure on the public food supply.


vegetable garden

vegetable garden (plural vegetable gardens)

The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.

1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:

A garden where vegetables and herbs are grown for personal or household use, sometimes inclusive of cold frames, greenhouses, and market gardens. (This entry is a translation hub.)

pleasure ground

section of a large garden not used for edible plants

truck garden

section of a large garden used for edible plants for sale

orchard

section of a large garden used for trees bearing edible fruit


orchidarium

orchidarium (plural orchidariums or orchidaria)

orchidariums (plural)
orchidaria (plural)


rock garden

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tea garden

A public garden where tea and other refreshments are served.

garraí tae

(marketing) Synonym of teahouse (“cafe restaurant that primarily serves tea and accompaniments”)


floretum

Coordinate term: arboretum

A garden where flowers are grown for research purposes.


flower garden

A mile or so further on is the intermediate station of Ryhall, smothered with primroses in the season, and at all times a veritable flower garden.

1946 September and October, D. J. Rowett, “Stamford L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 283:

A garden where flowers are grown for decorative purposes.


hedge maze

An outdoor garden maze in which the walls between passages are made of vertical hedges.


sensory garden

A garden designed to incorporate scent, sound, etc. so as to be accessible and enjoyable for visitors who may have sensory impairments.


hanging garden

An artistic garden or a small urban farm: attached to or built on a wall.

A garden formed in terraces rising one above another, like those of Nebuchadnezzar at Babylon.


truck farm

(chiefly US) A small-scale farm larger than a market garden but smaller than a full-scale farm involving the use of tractors or livestock.


physic garden

From physic + garden, after French jardin médicinal.

After they had visited the physic garden, the university, the anatomical hall, and every other thing that was recommended to their view, they returned to Rotterdam, and held a consultation upon the method of transporting themselves to England.

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

(now historical) A botanical garden where plants are grown for medicinal purposes.


fairy garden

A fanciful ornamental garden with miniature buildings etc. supposed to house fairies.


cutting garden

North of the rose garden and connecting with it is a cutting garden, which is bordered by a hedge of climbing roses.

1916 March 10, Auburn Seminary Record, volume 12:

All the plants in a cutting garden are grown specifically for flower arranging (as opposed to a general diversified landscape), but they are positioned to create a pleasing garden design.

1999, Jan Gertley, Dried Flowers for All Seasons: Creating the Fresh-Flower Look Year-Round:

The sunflower series, the irises, the cutting gardens of Provence, his series of floral bouquets while living in Paris, all are images that remain indelible in our minds among his tremendous outpouring of work.

2001, Derek Fell, Van Gogh's Gardens, page 10:

A garden designed to provide flowers to be cut and used in arrangements.


sky garden

A garden in or on a tall building, high above ground level.