'Landscape gardening' definitions:

Definition of 'landscape gardening'

noun

Working as a landscape gardener [syn: landscaping, landscape gardening]

From: GCIDE

Landscape \Land"scape\, n. [Formerly written also landskip.] [D. landschap; land land + -schap, equiv. to E. -schip; akin to G. landschaft, Sw. landskap, Dan. landskab. See Land, and -schip.]
1. A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains. [1913 Webster]
2. A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc. Compare seascape. [1913 Webster]
3. The pictorial aspect of a country. [1913 Webster]
The landscape of his native country had taken hold on his heart. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Landscape gardening, The art of laying out grounds and arranging trees, shrubbery, etc., in such a manner as to produce a picturesque effect. [1913 Webster]