potting shed

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Confined indoors with little Christopher, Milne sat in a potting shed, feeling "gloomy" as the rain poured down, according to Brandreth.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2025

“I think Peter rather liked the fact that Charles would kneel down in the dirt of the potting shed and ask her to marry him. There’s something intensely moving about their middle-aged love.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2023

One 2015 project of his in Southampton with a six-figure price tag includes an underground irrigation system, a potting shed, an orchard and a meadow for a cutting garden.

From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2017

The architecture extends out into the garden, with a potting shed that Peter designed and tucked into the side garden.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2017

Or that he once found an index card in Byrd’s potting shed that said Terms of Separation, like it was some kind of legal document George or Emmett once worked on when they were lawyers.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers