gardener

noun

gar·den·er ˈgär-də-nər

ˈgärd-nər

plural gardeners

: a person who gardens:

: one employed to care for the gardens or grounds of a home, business concern, or other property

a professional gardener

… he wants to stay on the island and become a nursery gardener, like his grandfather …—

Edith Oliver

: one who spends time cultivating plants and tending a garden for pleasure or recreation

Both she and her husband are avid gardeners.

The natural reaction of an average gardener to most insect and weed problems is to reach for the toxic stuff.—

Amy Stewart

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Okra needs warm temperatures to thrive, as Southern gardeners know, so the Stevenses started seeds in their shed before transferring to the garden. —

Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 1 Nov. 2024 Fruit Trees: Home orchards often see a boom in spring, as gardeners are keen to plant apples, peaches and pears with the hope of producing fruit by late summer or fall. —

Tammy Sons, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024 However, other gardeners may choose to leave their tomatoes in their gardens until the plants naturally die back with the first hard frost. —

Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Oct. 2024 Winter pruning is a deceptively simple concept: while an apple tree is dormant, a gardener prunes her trees by cutting off, or heading, some of a branch’s recent growth. —

Manjula Martin, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for gardener