Meanings
- dateduncountableThe set of activities pertaining to gardening, including design, planting, cultivating species, etc.; horticulture.
One of the most charming examples of old English gardenage at Hampton Court is the sunk garden called the Pond Garden.
1900 June 2, E. Law, “Gardenage at Hampton Court”, in Country Life, volume 7, number 178, page 7103 more examples
"The gardenage" that had airs in it "freer than those that were more stiff," was, at the close of the seventeenth century, completely on a par with the Dutch architecture perpetrated by Mary and her spouse.
1853, Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland, Lives of the Queens of England, page 209The hanging gardens of Babylon were the greatest expression of the pride of man in the domain of gardenage ever known, one of the wonders of the world truly; the Garden of Eden was the truest expression of pure veneficence to the world in a material sense.
1909, Thomas H. Mawson, “Garden Design-Comparative, Historical, and Ethical”, in Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, volume 34, page 368A new civilization had struggled up from the long centuries of barbaric gardenage in which the food plants had been developed, not only the potatoes and maize, but our French beans and scarlet runners, our pumpkins and our tobacco and the tomatoes we used to call Apples of Peru.
1952, Geoffrey Grigson, Gardenage: Or, The Plants of Ninhursaga, page 101
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