98 Metaphors for gardening

The remembrance of it had followed him everywherein the Bois de Boulogne, in Hyde Park; for him the garden of the Toledan Cathedral was the most beautiful of all gardens, for it was the first he had even known in his life.

Soft, on the morrow, they are gone; His garden then will be Denser and shadier and greener, Greener the moss-grown tree.

Grannie says there is a splendid promise of fruit in the orchard, and the flower-garden is a perfect dream.

The garden was an homage to nature, a carefully tended frame within which blossoms fell and birds flitted in their own time.

The gardens were usually open Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and the amusements were music, tea-drinking, walking, and talking.

The old garden is sometimes the Forest of Arden, sometimes the Land of Lilliput, sometimes the Border.

The defunct back yard is being covered by an extension that will give Martin a fine library, with a side window and a scrap of balcony, while the ailantus tree is left, that bob-tailed Josephus may not be deprived of the feline pleasures of the street or his original way of reaching it over the side fence; and the flower garden that was, will be the foundation of a garden of books under the kindly doctrine of compensation.

" The house adjoining this garden was not Dame Tyson's but a Mr. Watson's.

* * Covent Garden was once the emporium of the arts and sciences, and the residence of the chief nobility of the kingdom.

The garden was that special portion of her inheritance on which the ancient owner rested her eyes; morning, noon, and evening she would sit gazing on its green fishpond, all overgrown with duckweed, on the lawn now fast being encroached on by shrubbery, and on the bed of lilies which from year to year spread and flourished.

There was not so much one battle as a variety of battles; every garden and orchard became a scene of deadly contest; every inch of ground was disputed, with an agony of grief and valor, by the Moors; every inch of ground that the Christians advanced they valiantly maintained; but never did they advance with severer fighting or greater loss of blood.

The garden is about 100 yards from the sea.

Though they were reinforced more than once, the number never exceeded twelve hundred; and notwithstanding the enemy having, by battering down the gate of the farmyard, and setting fire to the straw in it, got possession of the outer works, in the evening attack, they could make no impression on the strong hold, the garden "Whose close pleach'd walks and bowers have been The deadly marksman's lurking screen.

One place, called Nova Scotia gardens,the term "gardens" was a misnomer,she purchased, tore down the old rookeries where people slept and ate in filth and rags, and built tasteful homes for two hundred families, charging for them low and weekly rentals.

During the early part of the first Revolution, its gardens became the resort of the most violent politicians; here, the tri-coloured cockade was first adopted, and the popular party decided on many of its bolder measures.

"Angelo," said she, "has a garden surrounded with a brick wall, on the western side of which is a vineyard, and to that vineyard is a gate."

When they were done, the garden was a rich golden color, and right for planting.

This lovely garden was an additional pleasure to me, because I was relieved from a muzzle.

Certainly, gardening amongst the ancient Greeks, was a very simple business.

In front, at the bottom of the harbour, villa over villa, garden over garden, up to the large and handsome Government House, one of the most delectable spots of all this delectable land; and piled above it, green hill upon green hill, which, the eye soon discovers, are the Sommas of old craters, one inside the other towards the central peak of Mount Maitland, 1700 feet high.

My sisterfor so I was taught to call Evelyn Erlerevelled in this floral exclusiveness, but to me the dear old garden was far more delightful and life-giving.

the garden was a wild!

Our flower-garden looked its very loveliest at this season; for it boasted countless stores of hyacinths, tulips, daffodils, blue-bells, violets, crocuses, &c.

Her garden was the most brilliant bit of ground possible.

The garden was a bower of roses.

98 Metaphors for  gardening