Sentence examples for garden auction from inspiring English sources

It begins with a painting of the  Covent Garden auction house that Blake visited as a child.

Ms. Midler, the self-proclaimed compost queen who became an environmental hero when her organization rescued the community gardens from the auction block, has already made the link to Learning Leaders.

That group has its own heroes -- Mr. Spitzer, who brought his own lawsuit against the city in 1999 to prevent it from auctioning garden land to the highest bidder, and the singer Bette Midler, who stepped in with millions of dollars to save scores of gardens that same year.

A garden party, with an auction of Empire-style furniture, botanical prints and Tiffany jewelry, will take place next Thursday, from 6 30 to 9 p.m.

Those included the release of thousands of live crickets during an auction of gardens at One Police Plaza; an event that involved people sleeping overnight in a jumbo sculpture of a tree frog inside a garden on East Seventh Street; and an episode in which a man dressed as a sunflower climbed a tree near City Hall.

But the beer garden almost went on the auction block seven years ago, when the society, down to 34 members and $150,000 in debt, was told to pay its back taxes or sell.

The evening will also include silent and live auctions of plants, garden furniture and other prize.

The Nation auctions off a Noam Chomsky garden gnome.

It is now up for auction in June in Covent Garden by the Sincura Group.

Visitors can take a class in flower arranging, get tips for designing their own gardens, or bid in a faux flower auction.

Sculpture -- both small works that fit well in Manhattan apartments and large monumental works for gardens -- has become a hot property at auction, partly because sculpture has been undervalued recently and partly because many people are building sculpture gardens.