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

The scene was originally written to take place in a rose garden, but Olivia Williams, who plays Camilla, suggested setting it in the potting shed instead.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2023

She lives in a small room — a former potting shed that still smells like “loam and rotting leaves” — attached to the garage of a friend of her brother’s.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2020

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

Then she said, “Did you go to the potting shed, like I told you?”

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman