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garden

[gahr-dn] / ˈgɑr dn /


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Honshu was captured after being spotted in the garden of a nearby house and later moved to Edinburgh Zoo to give him "a fresh start".

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

A community garden has replaced a drug market, a library stands where an unofficial dumping ground once accumulated milk crates, and formerly deserted blocks now have families moving in.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

A struggle ensues and the man is pulled down, with his trousers appearing to fall down, before he is arrested by officers in the garden of the property.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

“I’ve always thought every yard deserves a nice piece of garden art,” Gatwood told The Times.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

Gingersnipes was all the way across the garden, staring at him with a look of profoundly helpless concern.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Arrive early for an aperitif at the bar and to wander the art-filled interiors and mazelike gardens.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

One firefighter was hospitalised and five others suffered minor injuries, the fire service confirmed, with crews continuing to extinguish "hotspots" in open grassland, along a railway and in gardens.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

Among them was the academy’s annual summer party, themed after 18th-century Georgian pleasure gardens — Britain’s oil-lamp-lit outdoor venues where aristocrats, the newly rich and everyday revelers gathered to see, be seen and behave badly.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

The entire lot measures more than 34,000 square feet, with landscaped gardens and lawns.

From MarketWatch Aug. 10, 2026

Soon there are so many sick that there is no one with strength to tend the gardens, no one with strength to hunt or fish.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

“My father built a cabin and gardened; we raised chickens and sheep. My mother was a schoolteacher who sewed all my clothes and dolls.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

Gen. Kanamine’s father gardened and served food to the host family; his wife cooked and did housework.

From Washington Post Mar. 6, 2023

As we gardened and invested in gardens for different social, educational and environmental reasons in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods, we contributed to increasing land values in a process described as green gentrification.

From Salon Sep. 9, 2022

She devoured the New Yorker and The Economist and gardened in her backyard, enjoying its sweeping Puget Sound view.

From Seattle Times Jan. 9, 2022

This was the one she gardened and fished in, nibbled at the brim.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

Small highlights include being featured in a Reese Witherspoon carousel and Ashley Tisdale French gardening video on Instagram, the latter containing their other hit, “Aces.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

Dame Prue's Bake Off predecessor, Dame Mary, will chat to the show's former host, comedian Mel Giedroyc, to discuss her second great love of gardening and her forthcoming cookbook.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

He spends a lot of time outside gardening and working on his cars and can seemingly sense whenever a neighbor is having car trouble.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

And Fernando said he’s more likely to see a retired neighbor gardening than a child on a bicycle.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

Peter looked back at the display—seed packets and gardening tools.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker




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