garden

1. Brit

a. an area of land, usually planted with grass, trees, flowerbeds, etc., adjoining a house

b. (as modifier): a garden chair

a. an area of land used for the cultivation of ornamental plants, herbs, fruit, vegetables, trees, etc.

b. (as modifier): garden tools

3. such an area of land that is open to the public, sometimes part of a park
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Garden

A piece of ground, open or enclosed, appropriated to plants, trees, shrubs, or other landscape features.

What does it mean when you dream about a garden?

A beautiful garden in glorious bloom is said to represent the psyche and the growth of the soul; the transition from earthly realms to heavenly planes, and peace and harmony. A sparse, weed-infested garden suggests that the spiritual needs of the dreamer should be tended.

garden

A plot of ground used principally for growing vegetables, fruits, or flowering and/or ornamental plants.

Garden

(dreams)

It may be a symbol of lost innocence or youth. Folklore tells us that dreaming of beautiful gardens is symbolic of great happiness and love. If the garden is wild, it means that you may have difficulties but with some care and attention you are capable of overcoming them.

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References in classic literature

"I cannot understand why the Spring is so late in coming," said the Selfish Giant, as he sat at the window and looked out at his cold white garden; "I hope there will be a change in the weather."

The Autumn gave golden fruit to every garden, but to the Giant's garden she gave none.

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And then the evenings, when the workmen had all gone and the house was left to emptiness and echoes, and the old housekeeper had gathered up her rheumatic limbs into her bed, and my little room in quite another part of the house had been set ready, how reluctantly I used to leave the friendly frogs and owls, and with my heart somewhere down in my shoes lock the door to the garden behind me, and pass through the long series of echoing south rooms full of shadows and ladders and ghostly pails of painters' mess, and humming a tune to make myself believe I liked it, go rather slowly across the brick-floored hall, up the creaking stairs, down the long whitewashed passage, and with a final rush of panic whisk into my room and double lock and bolt the door!

I took him round the garden along the new paths I had had made, and showed him the acacia and lilac glories, and he said that it was the purest selfishness to enjoy myself when neither he nor the offspring were with me, and that the lilacs wanted thoroughly pruning.

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It looked as though some person had been walking all over the garden in a pair of clogs--only the foot-marks were too ridiculously little!

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Perhaps it led into the garden which no one had seen for ten years.

Perhaps it was because she had nothing whatever to do that she thought so much of the deserted garden. She was curious about it and wanted to see what it was like.

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"I say," he said meekly, "there are no gates to this garden, do you know."

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I repeated that I had studies to pursue; that I wanted quiet; that I delighted in a garden and had vainly sought one up and down the city; that I would undertake that before another month was over the dear old house should be smothered in flowers.

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In compliance with a whim of Clifford, as it troubled him to see them in confinement, they had been set at liberty, and now roamed at will about the garden; doing some little mischief, but hindered from escape by buildings on three sides, and the difficult peaks of a wooden fence on the other.

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If you are a child of the Gardens you must know the chestnut-tree near the bridge, which comes out in flower first of all the chestnuts, but perhaps you have not heard why this tree leads the way.

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Then she would come out of her dream, and look round at the grandees of the Gardens with an extraordinary elation.

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