potting shed
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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She created Petersham Nurseries Café, with a dirt floor, wobbly old chairs, secondhand cooking gear installed in a former potting shed, and a simple menu based on whatever was growing in the adjacent garden.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
But Mrs Bayley points out that the process is remarkably similar to what amateur gardeners do in a potting shed, taking a cutting from a much-loved rose to grow another.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2025
“I think Peter rather liked the fact that Charles would kneel down in the dirt of the potting shed and ask her to marry him. There’s something intensely moving about their middle-aged love.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 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
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
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