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- adjective chiefly UK Having a seemingly natural gardening ability.
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Examples
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The Observer's green-fingered guru on all things horticultural
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It's easy to forget that before Ilkley's favourite son was a daytime chatshow colossus and racy novelist, Alan Titchmarsh was a humble, green-fingered horticulturist.
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Corporate plants in Eland House are now in need of some green-fingered friends to ensure their survival.
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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This large shop holds green-fingered titles galore, but also stocks a healthy selection of other books, along with some high-end kitchenware, jewellery, gifts, and home-grown blackcurrant jam.
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For the less green-fingered, this beautiful farm is only separated from bookworm-central Hay-on-Wye by a river.
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It's easy to forget that before Ilkley's favourite son was a daytime chatshow colossus and racy novelist, Alan Titchmarsh was a humble, green-fingered horticulturist.
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This series finds the green-fingered sometime novelist visiting inspirational British gardens of history, this time fetching up in the 17th-century elegance of Hatfield House in Hertfordshire.
Tonight's TV highlights John Robinson 2010
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Over the past few months, green-fingered youngsters at the Skipton school have also been cultivating carrots, peas and beans in four raised beds in a corner of the school's grounds.
Outdoor learning cultivation Linda Jackson 2010
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I'm very aware that to the green-fingered among you this may look like a very poor early specimen of borage and to others it may look like a weed, but let me tell you this is no ordinary borage.
Sylvia's borage 2007
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I'm very aware that to the green-fingered among you this may look like a very poor early specimen of borage and to others it may look like a weed, but let me tell you this is no ordinary borage.
Sylvia's borage 2007
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