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cutting garden

American  

noun

  1. a household flower garden planted solely for growing flowers that are to be cut and displayed indoors.


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Chad and Stacie Vanags’ backyard cutting garden has become a healing sanctuary for the couple and others, following Chad’s stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 20, 2023

Soon, she decided to experiment with traditional farming, turn her backyard into a cutting garden, and use her neighbors’ yards as satellite farms.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2023

I remember one year when I took all the care in the world with my cutting garden, specifically my herbaceous peonies.

From Washington Post Feb. 22, 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

She found her outdoors, in the cutting garden.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

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