These added a long list of social relations that she and her family carefully tended.

The palace has been carefully tended throughout the 20th century.

The carefully tended grass was a dark but lush green.

I didn't look at her, tending carefully to the drying.

Watching everyone mill around on the carefully tended lawn, I suddenly wanted to go home.

He waved at the fountain and the carefully tended trees.

Well, not quite: nothing can match a carefully tended garden in the tropical sun.

"Relationships with doctors are fragile and need to be carefully tended," he added.

Some have been carefully tended over the years; others show the devastating effects of time and circumstance.

She led the way through the hall and into a good-sized room giving on to a carefully tended garden.