landscape gardening

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noun

the art or trade of designing or rearranging large gardens, estates, etc.

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Origin of landscape gardening

First recorded in 1795–1805

OTHER WORDS FROM landscape gardening

landscape gardener, noun

Words nearby landscape gardening

lands, land sailing, Landsat, landscape, landscape architecture, landscape gardening, landscaper, landscapist, Landseer, Land's End, landshark

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How to use landscape gardening in a sentence

Landscape gardening has, as yet, been developed little in Canada.
The Canadian Girl at Work|Marjory MacMurchy
The Germans took their horticulture from the Dutch, as they did their landscape gardening from the French.
The different modes of cultivating the pine-apple|John Claudius Loudon
If ever you want a job of landscape-gardening thoroughly well done, you can always rely upon me.
Happy Days|Alan Alexander Milne
This splendid landscape gardening extends over the greater portion of the Park.
Your National Parks|Enos A. Mills

William Shenstone, Esq., justly celebrated for his pure and classic taste in landscape gardening.
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening,|Samuel Felton

British Dictionary definitions for landscape gardening

landscape gardening

noun

the art of laying out grounds in imitation of natural sceneryAlso called: landscape architecture

Derived forms of landscape gardening

landscape gardener, noun

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