The phrase "a patch of garden" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a small area of land where plants, flowers, or vegetables are cultivated, often in a domestic setting.
Example: "She spent her weekends tending to a patch of garden behind her house, growing tomatoes and herbs."
Alternatives: "a small garden area" or "a section of garden".
A patch of garden fends off the encroaching woods.
This is creating opportunities for home-based entrepreneurs with a green thumb and a patch of garden going spare.
If I looked out of any of my windows in London, the most I could see would be a patch of garden, other people's front doors.
In front, there was also a patch of garden in which a tree stood, with a single living branch and a few sickly leaves hanging from it.
We recently moved from a patch of garden to a home on three-quarters of an acre with a gorgeous garden that has been well tended over the years.
First, spiralling property prices mean that many people cannot now afford to buy their first house until well into their thirties and then, suddenly faced with a patch of garden, "the fear strikes, because you don't know what to do".
Wiley also likes arrangements dense with foliage--a style she calls "English cottage garden". The idea, she says, is to create the illusion that you've brought a patch of the garden indoors, background foliage, ground cover and all.
Liz indicates a space by a garage (with a tiny patch of garden).
"I don't think many people here watch Bake Off," she says when she opens the door and leads me inside to a tiny kitchen overlooking a damp patch of garden.
He set up his easel with a view out a window of his house onto a late summer patch of garden.
Knowing it only had a day or so to go, I cried downstairs, my mother wept upstairs in bed, remembering her own, first, beloved boxer dying 50 years ago, and Daughter sat up very straight with her back to the house in a sunny patch of garden, giving the almost motionless dog a last brush and a stroke.
