Even the small towns they passed along the way offered houses that were generously surrounded by beautiful shade trees, well tended gardens, and fertile lawns.

The Don stared beyond his screened porch at the pool and acres of carefully tended lawns.

Korval employed several very able gardeners, whose task it was to tend the formal gardens and lawns.

On weekends, most of them like to tend lawns and gardens that draw admiration from all over the neighborhood.

The houses were not yet pumped up on steroids and wrapped in bland colors of sterile vinyl with professionally tended lawns.

In residential areas, the geese are attracted by the lush, carefully tended lawns of this central New Jersey community.

But lovingly tended flower gardens and verdant lawns, however modest, attest to a resurrection of pride.

They are modest two-story dwellings, most with small, neatly tended lawns and economy-model cars in the driveways.

They were tending lawns and preparing outdoor meals in red-roofed homes adjacent to a large Muslim graveyard.

Gardeners were tending the immaculate public flowerpots and lawns in front of houses on the way into town yesterday afternoon.