well-tended

The following Sunday, he and Margaret would do their first joint 60 Minutes interview, which would be taped, weather permitting, in the well-tended garden of their weekend home, which Margaret had invested many pleasant hours in creating.

O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

Neighborhoods anchored by vibrant community centers, well-funded public libraries, public schools with committed parent bodies, recreational heritage sites with enthusiastic staff and volunteers, well-tended public parks -- even the local cafe where people gather to eat, drink, talk and work -- can be important sites for forging relationships, sites that don't rely on the notion of the divine.

Mira Sucharov: What's Being Lost In The Eternal God Debate Mira Sucharov 2011

These dandelion children — equivalent to our “normal” or “healthy” children, with “resilient” genes — do pretty well almost anywhere, whether raised in the equivalent of a sidewalk crack or a well-tended garden.

The Science of Success 2009

These dandelion children — equivalent to our “normal” or “healthy” children, with “resilient” genes — do pretty well almost anywhere, whether raised in the equivalent of a sidewalk crack or a well-tended garden.

The Science of Success 2009

The Ralphs was vast, well-lit, bountifully stocked, and possessed of a huge and well-tended produce section.

Cultivating Failure 2010

As she prepares for opening night, Ms. Peters has a problem many women her age might envy: To play Sally, a 49-year-old matron who sings about being fat and eating Baby Ruths, the well-tended Ms. Peters is struggling to keep on weight.

Bernadette Peters Turns Dark Ellen Gamerman 2011

To no one's surprise, after bouncing over Bordeaux, Serrata and the stewardess spotted some well-tended vineyards, and as the zeppelin tumbled toward inevitable collision with Mont Blanc, they both jumped from the sleek gondola.

The Sky-What Limit? strannikov 2012

It sat in the middle of several interior structures: a stuccoed field-stone chapel with a yard of well-tended short grass, a central hall of polished sandstone the color of lime, three wings of cloisters connected by shade-giving arbors, several out-buildings for the livestock, a small flower garden, a smithy, and the wishing pool, where it was nice to sit after a hard day's work.

G'lder Curtis Hox 2011

A few homes are boarded up, but many are well-tended and house whites as well as blacks.

Park was a witness to history 2011

From the Highlands, with its vast hydro schemes, to the well-tended gardens of Kent, Britain is a hard-worked plot and has been for centuries.

The profit motive should not shape the country | Observer editorial 2011