noun
definition
One who gardens; one who grows plants or cultivates a garden.
example
"Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and to plant virtue." — St. Catherine of Siena
Examples of gardener in a Sentence
Hurry off and tell Maksim, the gardener, to set the serfs to work.
One tree occupies the whole time of a gardener for about ten days.
Then he rewarded the gardener with ten more pieces for his honesty.
He called for Taras the gardener, but no one replied.
The reciprocal adaptations of insects and flowers demand attentive observation on the part of the gardener concerned with the growing of grapes, cucumbers, melons and strawberries, or with the raising of new and improved varieties of plants.
Having served his apprenticeship as gardener from the age of fifteen, and himself constructed a large lake when gardener to Battlesden in 1821, he was in 1823 employed in the arboretum at Chiswick, the seat of the duke of Devonshire, and eventually became superintendent of the duke's gardens and grounds at Chatsworth, and manager of his Derbyshire estates.
Moffat was builder, carpenter, smith, gardener, farmer, all in one, and by precept and example he succeeded in turning a horde of bloodthirsty savages into a "people appreciating and cultivating the arts and habits of civilized life, with a written language of their own."
One was a fine gardener; another could take care of horses; a third was a good cook; a fourth could manage a household.
The caliph at once gave orders for the gardener to be brought before him the next day.
Before noon the next day the gardener was admitted to the palace.
The gardener put his hand under his cloak and drew out the very bag that the merchant had lost.
My daughter, the family gardener, only plants heirloom produce from non-hybrid seeds.
The only thing to be said in excuse of that gardener would be that he was very angry.
It has a royal château built in 1570, with a large park laid out in 1755 by the French gardener Molard from designs by Le Notre, and enlarged in 1835.
The introduction of steel concrete (also known as ferroconcrete, armoured concrete, or reinforced concrete) is generally attributed to Joseph Monier, a French gardener, who about the year 1868 was anxious to build some concrete water basins.
It behooves the judicious gardener, then, not to be too slavish in his attempts to imitate natural conditions, and to bear in mind that such attempts sometimes end in failure.
It must be remembered that nails spoil a wall sooner or later, whereas a wire trellis is not only much neater, but enables the gardener to tie his trees up much more quickly.
Such changes take place naturally, but they are often increased by the art of the gardener, and the object of many horticultural operations is to increase the bulk and succulence of leaves.
For the landscape gardener, the larch is a valuable aid in the formation of park and pleasure ground; but it is never seen to such advantage as when hanging over some tumbling burn or rocky pass among the mountains.
Escaping with the queen from the Tuileries by a back entrance, he made his way with her in disguise to Honfleur, where the royal couple found refuge in a gardener's cottage.
The booklet is full of tips and I would urge every keen gardener to get a copy.
I am on this journey for the same reason I started a city farm, which is the same reason I became a gardener.
I'm a keen gardener; how will the trees affect me?
There are many types of melons available to the home gardener, each promising sweet, delectable fruit.
Even the home gardener may be taken aback.
On his return to Berlin he studied art under the sculptor Christian Daniel Rauch and the painter and architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841), proving himself in the end a good draughtsman, a born architect and an excellent landscape gardener.
Most of those studies of home-life in England, which formed so highly popular a section of Tennyson's work - such as "The Gardener's Daughter," "Walking to the Mail," and "The Lord of Burleigh" - were now first issued, and, in what we have grown to consider a much higher order, "Locksley Hall," "Ulysses," and "Sir Galahad."
The Park occupies nearly 300 acres, of great natural beauty, which has been increased by the judicious arts of the landscape gardener.
Those most suitable for the purpose of the gardener are carefully selected for propagation, while others not so desirable are destroyed; and thus after a few generations a fixed variety, race or strain superior to the original form is obtained.
Sound friable loam cut one sod deep from the surface of a pasture, and stacked up for twelve months in a heap or ridge, is invaluable to the gardener.
The selection of suitable alpines, perennials and shrubs and trees also necessitates considerable knowledge on the part of the gardener.
Almost all English vegetables can be raised by a careful gardener.
As these varieties intercross with each 1 See drawings made to scale by Mr Worthington Smith in the Gardener's Chronicle (25th December 1886).
A female allotment gardener has won best allotment gardener has won best allotment plot competition for the third year running.
Having studied botany, Neil has always been a keen gardener.
The same civility I received from Dr. Gibbons, Dr. Gardener, and others.
The BBC is looking for the best amateur gardener in the British Isles with the launch of BBC Gardener of the Year 2006.
Selling a simple garden glove to an avid gardener is not a taxing task.
This man was a gardener.
The interview includes pictures of the gardener's work and tips.
Annuals may be the easiest for a novice container gardener to try.
Emmitsburg Master Gardener Lisa Utt offers advice in this article for gardeners on how to design beautiful container gardens.
For the home gardener, using PVC or plastic compounds to create raised beds may be challenging.
Even though there are challenges present with growing blueberry plants in the home garden, it is still worth the effort when the gardener sees that first crop and tastes the sweet, tangy deliciousness of those first blueberries.
When gardening, container strawberries offer fresh fruit for the home gardener with limited space.
The fresh branches, with their thick mat of foliage, are useful to the gardener for sheltering wall-fruit in the spring.
The species of Helix are all herbivorous, like the Pulmonata generally; snails and slugs are well-known enemies to the gardener.
The blossoms of the peach are formed the autumn previous to their expansion, and this fact, together with the peculiarities of their form and position, requires to be borne in mind by the gardener in his pruning and training operations.
During his professoriate he wrote many scientific and popular works, besides contributing largely to the Botanical Register, of which he was editor for many years, and to the Gardener's Chronicle, in which he had charge of the horticultural department from 1841.
His more important books, of which English translations have been published, are the poems Gitanjali (Song Offerings) (1913), The Crescent Moon (1913), The Gardener (1913), Songs of Kabir (1915), Fruit Gathering (1916), Stray Birds (1917), The Lover's Gift and the Crossing (1918); the plays Chitra (1914), The King of the Dark Chamber (1914), The Post Office (1914),.