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| Location: | Goose Creek, South Carolina USA |
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Robert, I would call your back yard a garden. I have been looking up all sorts of sites claiming to know the definition of yard vs garden. The only one that makes sense to me is, the land surrounding a home is called a yard and if you plant flowers, shrubs, food product, etc, it becomes a garden.
This definition works well with your thoughts Robert about scrap yards, cattle yards, etc. There is usually a building of some sort surrounded by land called a yard. You put scrap metal on it and it's a scrap yard.
Anyway, I have always been amazed at the beautiful gardens Europeans have on their property. They have a love of beautiful plants.
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