winter garden

noun

1. an outdoor garden maintained during the winter with hardy plants.
2. a conservatory devoted to the cultivation of winter-blooming plants.

winter garden

noun

1. a garden of evergreen plants and plants that flower in winter
2. a conservatory in which flowers are grown in winter

Word History and Origins

Origin of winter garden¹

First recorded in 1775–85

Example Sentences

Farmscape usually maintains the raised bed gardens they create, visiting the sites weekly to keep everything tidy, but Angel was so invested in doing the gardening herself that McLaughlin says her crews only come a couple times a year now to do seasonal maintenance such as helping her “flip” the beds from a summer garden of tomatoes, peppers, chard, basil and cucumbers to a winter garden heavy with greens, broccoli and sugar snap peas.

From Los Angeles Times

The sounds of a string quartet echoed up from the Winter Garden.

From Literature

“In addition to ourselves, Her Royal Highness Princess Louise is attended by a human lady-in-waiting, Lady Augusta Drear. They naturally do not take tea in the Winter Garden. We rarely partake in public. At present the Princess is being kneaded in the Turkish bath.”

From Literature

In the crackling quiet, music still welled up from the Winter Garden.

From Literature

Visitors strolling through the Joseph A. Witt Winter Garden at Washington Park Arboretum encounter a garden at its prime in deep midwinter.

From Seattle Times