Meaning

The art or skill of gardening..

Definitions by Sense

1. The art or skill of gardening.
2. An area that is cultivated into gardens.

Example Sentences

But 2 or 3 lay brothers who understood gardenry had made their garden (which is very large) one of the noblest things one could see.

That we make him take Plantations of Gardens for Plantations of Kirks, is natural enough for a Man who underſtands nothing but Gardenry, and frequently uſes to miſtake.

The gardens have very few flowers, and the sound of the rake nowadays is seldom heard on the gravel; but there are plenty of fine trees—some really stupendous poplars, untrimmed and spreading abroad like oaks, chestnuts which would make a figure in Italy, beeches which would be called “rather good” in England; plenty of nooks and bowers and densely woven arcades, triumphs of old-fashioned gardenry; and a large dull-bosomed pond into which the unadorned castle-walls peep from above the trees.

The Gentle Art of Gardenry / This has been a year to discourage the most eager gardener; a mild, soft winter breaking into an early spring, cold and snow in May and drought and heat all through the summer.

In 1873, John Hamilton, Master of the Glasgow Olive Lodge, defined its spiritual purpose: “Gardenery may be defined as the art of disposing the earth in such a manner as to produce whatever vegetables and fruits we desire, in large quantities and the greatest perfection of which their natures are capable.[…]” […] The secret of gardenry was revealed only to Adam, not Eve, as in this questioning of the postulant: “What did you come here upon?” “My mother, Earth.” “What are you?” “A man.” “How do you know yourself to be a man?” “By having that revealed to me which was never revealed to woman.” The candidate is then shown the emblems of Free Gardenry; the square, the compass, and the grafting knife, “the simplest tool of gardening,” and the initiate is exhorted to “prune the vices and propagate the virtues by cuttings.”

Rand, in Astronist Architecture, as part of gardenry, is any border, or margin that separates a pathway from a lawn, or flowerbed, especially one that features ornamental designs.

Gardenry was much extended and improved, and great attention was paid to the training of young gardeners in cultivating market plants, flowers, trees, and in making ornamental beds and gardens.

There is no better example of a very small public ground than one in Paris, where a beautiful church tower, decorated by centuries of superficial decay and mossy incrustations, has been taken as the centre of the work, the body of the church being removed and its place occupied by seats and gardenry.

When Should You Use Gardenry?

Use gardenry when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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