"tending plants" is a correct grammatical construction that can be used in written English.
You can use it when referring to the action of caring for and nurturing plants. For example, "He spends his days tending plants in his backyard garden."
The girls or their parents usually provided these, but the teachers were always tending plants.
He spends most of his time tending plants and reading the Koran and books of past Arab glories.
However, most people who cultivate a domestic plot also derive satisfaction from involvement in the processes of tending plants.
He demobilised last year and is grateful to have been given a job tending plants that will turned into chilli powder and sauce.
Research has shown that tending plants can be hugely beneficial for mental health, stress alleviation and encouraging feelings of empowerment – so the Dot Strong garden is no doubt a welcome reprieve for the beleaguered team at Aunty.
The smaller fruits of the lowbush are commercially harvested in Maine for jelly and jam by minimally tending plants in their native habitat with occasional burns to reduce weeds and rejuvenate the bearing plants.
In the late Archaic people began to tend plants, albeit to a limited degree.
Small businesses and mom-and-pop stores line Broadway, which has carefully tended plants in all its medians.
A semiretired gardener, Mr. Morgan still looks after two homes on the island, including one where he has tended plants for almost 40 years.
Most of it consists of fixed-camera views through matchstick blinds of neighboring buildings where mostly older residents eat, drink, smoke and tend plants on their balconies and terraces.
Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station (CUAES) greenhouse grower Julie Blaha braved the roads from her home in Odessa, New York, to tend plants in the Kenneth Post Laboratories and Greenhouses, while grower Laurence Walsh patched several broken windowpanes when melted snow and ice fell through the roof.
