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

So I have made a platform of a princely garden, partly by precept, partly by drawing, not a model, but some general lines of it; and in this I have spared for no cost.

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It was her garden. He locked th' door an' dug a hole and buried th' key.

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"Strange, gentlemen," he said as they hurried out into the garden, "that I should have hunted mysteries all over the earth, and now one comes and settles in my own back-yard.

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All his food was brought to him from the Gardens at Solomon's orders by the birds.

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So fond of babes was this little mother that she had always room near her for one more, and often have I seen her in the Gardens, the centre of a dozen mites who gazed awestruck at her while she told them severely how little ladies and gentlemen behave.

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They used to wander round the high wall when their lessons were over, and talk about the beautiful garden inside.

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This girl is grieved at my habit of living almost in the garden, and all her ideas as to the sort of life a respectable German lady should lead have got into a sad muddle since she came to me.

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THEN he took out the handkerchief of onions, and marched out of the garden.

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But the snow came earlier than usual that year; and although the old lame horse hauled in plenty of wood from the forest outside the town, so they could have a big fire in the kitchen, most of the vegetables in the garden were gone, and the rest were covered with snow; and many of the animals were really hungry.

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I suppose you all use the garden," I went on, "but I assure you I shouldn't be in your way.

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Give me a rose, that I may press its thorns, and prove myself awake by the sharp touch of pain!" Evidently, he desired this prick of a trifling anguish, in order to assure himself, by that quality which he best knew to be real, that the garden, and the seven weather-beaten gables, and Hepzibah's scowl, and Phoebe's smile, were real likewise.

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(The farewell warning of Crayford in the solitudes of the Frozen Deep, repeated by Clara in the garden of her English home!)

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