While Dudley lolled around watching and eating ice creams, Harry cleaned the windows, washed the car, mowed the lawn, trimmed the flowerbeds, pruned and watered the roses, and repainted the garden bench.
He looked at the little gnome prints all around the flowerbeds, and the scuffed-up patch that marked the spot where Fred had caught the gnome now wearing the tutu at the top of the Christmas tree.
" Give'em a lifelong siesta, I would, " snarled Uncle Vernon over the end of the news-readers sentence, but no matter: outside in the flowerbed, Harry's stomach seemed to unclench.
Each station and stretch of track has a distinct atmosphere, from the retro-romantic tea room at Carnforth, where 1945's Brief Encounter was filmed, to the trackside Ratty Arms and flowerbeds at Ravenglass.
Human landscapes of lawns, fields, or flowerbeds provide settings with bare soil and a lack of competitors that are perfect habitats for colonization by opportunists.
Helene says, " And the Jamisons had their flowerbeds trampled and a small fire set on their lawn three weeks ago." A " flower bed" is an area in your lawn or in your garden where there are flowers.
As they came disdainfully close to this silent farmhouse, a column of pale light from a coal oil lamp came through the living room window and haloed a neglected flowerbed.
She said to herself with determined candor that she would walk up to the St. Stephen's Green Park and look at the ducks and the flowerbeds and the eels.