I've always lived in a house which had both agarden and ayard. It would be common for the yard to be immediately adjacent to the doorway to the property, a garden would be a little further away - though it may be as little as a single pace from the door, across the yard and into the garden.TheGarden is made of soft earth where plants such as trees, grass or flowers may grow. TheYard is always covered with a hard surface where nothing will grow. The surface is typically covered with concrete, tarmac or paved with slabs of brick, stone or concrete.

It may help understanding to put it like this: In Britain the Garden is all a household's open land and a Yard is everything that would NOT be called a Garden in the US. In the US a Yard is all a households open land and a Garden is everything that would not be called as Garden in the UK.Stub Mandrel (talk)10:46, 11 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

No mention or even a link to this? o0drogue0o 11:52, 9 July 2011 (UTC)— Precedingunsigned comment added byO0drogue0o (talk •contribs)

If compound "backyard" is used, then why not also "frontyard" as compound?

At least in my region (NE USA) only backyard would be compound.Cyanman00ffff (talk)13:27, 1 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

does anyone else think this article might be a bit too exciting? kinda worries me— Precedingunsigned comment added byTremendousswan (talk •contribs)23:10, 3 May 2013 (UTC)Reply