Meanings
- uncommonuncountableGarden-based landscaping.
When the project is finished, The Land Grant will be nestled in park-like surrounding with lush gardenscaping and meandering green-belts.
1983 October 29, “Grand opening now under way at The Land Grant”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif., →ISSN, →OCLC, classified advertising supplement, page 26, column 12 more examples
Sometimes he takes visitors in the cool of the evening into the formal garden back of the Wilson house. This garden is said to be the best piece of gardenscaping in Washington.
1921 August 8, “Wilson Sees Own Vindication in Disarm Meeting”, in The Grand Rapids Press, last edition, 29th year, Grand Rapids, Mich., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 2Botanica, which opened in 1987, has 24 themed gardens and exhibits over more than nine acres of gardenscaping with more than 3,600 species of plants.
2012 April 2, Bill Wilson, “Botanica expansion plans to go before City Council”, in The Wichita Eagle, Wichita, Kan.: The Wichita Eagle and Beacon Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8A, columns 2–3 - uncommonuncountableThe maintenance of a gardenscape.
The club was started several seasons back by the teacher, Mrs. West, and much has been accomplished in advancing the art of gardenscaping and outdoor thrift among the children.
1936 March 6, “West Shokan”, in The Kingston Daily Freeman, volume LXV, number 119, Kingston, N.Y., →OCLC, page 4, column 52 more examples
It is a shame landscaping in the United States does not accept gardens or use them more in plans. In Europe, gardenscaping is a recognizable part of universtiy curricula or is part of the apprentice system we have discarded.
1975 May 3, C. G. Milne, “Garden Clinic: Flower Garden Planning Is Important”, in The Muncie Star, volume 99, number 33, Muncie, Ind., →OCLC, page 8, column 8Imperial parks aside, wealth could not buy the large country estates that it did in Europe, so the Chinese garden was a city retreat for the cultivated scholar-official whose yearnings for rural tranquillity were sublimated in the gentle art of gardenscaping.
1999, Christopher Knowles, “Chinese gardens”, in China (Explorer), 3rd edition, Basingstoke, Hampshire: AA Publishing, →ISBN, page 199
Origin
From gardenscape + -ing or blend of garden + landscaping.
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