landscape gardening
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- noun
- /ˈlændˌskeɪp ˈɡɑrdənɪŋ/
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jardinería paisajista
- The landscape gardening project transformed the dull backyard into a vibrant oasis.
Examples
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The centre is a healthy hub, which, through a partnership between the private, public, and voluntary sectors, serves thousands of people with more than 100 community projects, a GP practice, and social enterprises providing everything from landscape gardening to leadership classes.
Academic text (2010) -
During the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, landscape gardening—a subject for topographical verse—and other georgic poetry will focus on agricultural arts.
Academic text (1997) -
What's the idea of all the landscape gardening?
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Walpole broadly understood the Glorious Revolution of 1688 to signal a return to political and artistic freedom that allowed for the revival of Gothic architecture (despite the fact that the style would not be revived for a generation) and other arts such as landscape gardening.
Academic text (2013) -
She is studying landscape gardening to learn how to create beautiful outdoor spaces.
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After years of practice, he became an expert in landscape gardening, specializing in sustainable designs.
Synonyms
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Working to grow and care for plants, often as a hobby
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Planning and caring for a garden or yard to make it look nice
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The design and planning of outdoor places like parks and gardens
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the art and profession of designing, arranging, and maintaining gardens and outdoor areas' is directly derivable from combining 'landscape' (expanse of land) with 'gardening' (garden cultivation), since it refers to gardening applied to landscapes. This noun–noun compounding pattern is common in English and cross-linguistically familiar, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Landscape gardening comes from the idea of treating a wide outdoor landscape like a picture. Gardeners used gardening to place trees, paths and lawns like a painter arranges shapes and colour, so it now means 'designing and arranging gardens to make them attractive'.