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

But Mrs Bayley points out that the process is remarkably similar to what amateur gardeners do in a potting shed, taking a cutting from a much-loved rose to grow another.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 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

She lives in a small room — a former potting shed that still smells like “loam and rotting leaves” — attached to the garage of a friend of her brother’s.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2020

Then she said, “Did you go to the potting shed, like I told you?”

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman