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Collocations for garden - noun

ADJ.

beautiful, lovely, pretty | big, large | small, tiny | back, front
people hanging out washing in their back gardens
flower, herb, kitchen, rose, vegetable
Most of the hotel''s salads are grown in its own kitchen garden.
rock, water
a rock garden with an astonishing variety of alpine plants
botanical, cottage, formal, landscaped, public, town, walled
a large country house with beautiful landscaped gardens plants suitable for a small town garden a lovely Victorian walled garden

VERB + GARDEN

create, design, lay out, plan, plant
creating a garden out of a wilderness We got someone to design the garden for us. | The garden is laid out in eighteenth century style.
plant
We planted the garden with herbs and wild flowers.
dig, do, tend, tidy (up), weed
Weekends were spent doing the garden.

GARDEN + NOUN

flower, plant | pest
aphids, one of the commonest garden pests
tools | gate, path, shed, wall | furniture, seat | centre
We got the gravel at our local garden centre.

PREP.

in/into a/the ~
Mary''s out in the garden.

PHRASES

the bottom/end of a garden

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