Sentence examples for productive garden from inspiring English sources

At home her productive garden was a source of delight.

Carrots and heirloom tomatoes sprouted from planters -- a productive garden, he said, though it also attracts the neighborhood rats.

Their home was on a hillside and they had planted their little, but truly extraordinarily beautiful and productive garden of vegetables and flowers.

Here is Cork's Ballymaloe, the internationally famous cookery school, "the air perfumed with warm basil, tomatoes and compost", its hard-working, productive garden framed in a series of portraits that set down the energy rising off the place.

Gardenlab sprouted from what Haeg acknowledges as a "utopian fantasy": he had imagined that people would become passionately devoted to designing in sync with ecological cycles, and he could picture the black-steel Modernist box of a building looming over a lush, productive garden.

But throughout his career Powell also held that science and reason must force nature into submission, and this meant "driving the wildness out of the land, turning the continent into a more productive garden" and therefore building dams -- lots of them.

Today, however, we have home food production, urban farming, productive gardens, or whatever else you might want to call this movement - and it's hot.

"It's kind of 3D productive gardening," Crawford says.

I argue that community efforts to transform vacant lots into productive gardens and food forests constitute a specific form of claims on the right to the city, and on the right to alter and improve urban ecology.

From the twelfth to the nineteenth centuries, farmers in the Marais district of Paris transformed swampland into productive gardens and manipulated microclimates to grow peas, artichokes, figs and apricots.

Formerly a self-sufficient world of pleasure grounds, greenhouses and productive gardens, providing not only beauty but sustenance for the thousand-acre Victorian estate of the Tremayne family who had been at Heligan since the 16th century, the gardens were gradually abandoned after World War I.