cutting garden

noun

A garden designed to provide flowers to be cut and used in arrangements.

Meanings

nouncutting garden (plural cutting gardens)

plural cutting gardens

  1. A garden designed to provide flowers to be cut and used in arrangements.

    North of the rose garden and connecting with it is a cutting garden, which is bordered by a hedge of climbing roses.

    1916 March 10, Auburn Seminary Record, volume 12
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    All the plants in a cutting garden are grown specifically for flower arranging (as opposed to a general diversified landscape), but they are positioned to create a pleasing garden design.

    1999, Jan Gertley, Dried Flowers for All Seasons: Creating the Fresh-Flower Look Year-Round

    The sunflower series, the irises, the cutting gardens of Provence, his series of floral bouquets while living in Paris, all are images that remain indelible in our minds among his tremendous outpouring of work.

    2001, Derek Fell, Van Gogh's Gardens, page 10
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