gardened

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past tense and past participle of garden.

   He gardened for decades before age finally slowed him down.

   We had gardened that plot for years before selling the house.

   Note

   Behind this form is a verb that usually takes no object: people simply garden, so the past form normally stands alone, as in gardened in the afternoon, or follows have. The same spelling serves every verb sense of garden. That includes the cricket use, where a batsman gardened by tapping down rough patches of the pitch, and a slang use for smoking marijuana that belongs only to casual speech.

2. 2
   adjective

   Having gardens, or kept and tended in the manner of a garden.

   The heavily gardened grounds of the estate drew visitors from across the county.

   Every slope behind the villa was gardened, planted with herbs, vines, and clipped hedges.

   Similarlandscaped, cultivated

   Oppositewild, uncultivated, untended

   Note

   A participle that has settled into a describing word, usually placed before its noun: Tinsley's Magazine in 1871 has gardened isles, and Francis Stevens a gardened court. Unlike a verb form, it can be graded (more gardened, most gardened). That is the quickest test against the past tense of garden: a heavily gardened slope is a description, while he gardened all day reports an action.

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