potting shed

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She created Petersham Nurseries Café, with a dirt floor, wobbly old chairs, secondhand cooking gear installed in a former potting shed, and a simple menu based on whatever was growing in the adjacent garden.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

Confined indoors with little Christopher, Milne sat in a potting shed, feeling "gloomy" as the rain poured down, according to Brandreth.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2025

“I think Peter rather liked the fact that Charles would kneel down in the dirt of the potting shed and ask her to marry him. There’s something intensely moving about their middle-aged love.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2023

Inside the potting shed, his waxed-cotton apron hangs by the door.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2021

Had enough wood left over to make Byrd’s potting shed.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers