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A backyard, or back yard (known in the United Kingdom as a
Depending on the size of the backyard, it may have any number of items (or none), such as:
File:Harvey LA back yard 2.jpg, Back yard of a house in Harvey, Louisiana, United States
File:Building a swingset.jpg, A playground being built for a homeowner's backyard as part of a handyman project
File:BackyardParty.jpg, People posing at a backyard party in Canada
File:Dunraven house, Glamorganshire.jpeg, The backyard of Dunraven House, Wales, 1776
File:Backyard Las Vegas Pool.jpg, Backyard with pool in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
A backyard, or back yard (known in the United Kingdom as a back garden
A back garden is a residential garden located at the rear of a property, on the other side of the house from the front garden. Such gardens have a special place in English suburban and gardening culture.
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A back garden arises when the m ...
or just garden), is a yard at the back of a house, common in suburban developments in the Western world.
In Australia, until the mid-20th century, the back yard of a property would traditionally contain a fowl run, outhouse ("dunny
An outhouse is a small structure, separate from a main building, which covers a toilet. This is typically either a pit latrine or a bucket toilet, but other forms of dry (non-flushing) toilets may be encountered. The term may also be used t ...
"), vegetable patch, and woodheap
Wood fuel (or fuelwood) is a fuel such as firewood, charcoal, chips, sheets, pellets, and sawdust. The particular form used depends upon factors such as source, quantity, quality and application. In many areas, wood is the most easily availabl ...
. More recently, these have been replaced by outdoor entertainments such as a barbecue
Barbecue or barbeque (informally BBQ in the UK, US, and Canada, barbie in Australia and braai in South Africa) is a term used with significant regional and national variations to describe various cooking methods that use live fire and smoke ...
and swimming pool. But, since the 1990s, the trend in Australian suburban development has been for back yards to disappear as the dwellings now occupy almost all of the building plot.
In higher latitudes, it is economical in low land value regions to use open land surrounding a house for vegetable gardening during summers and allow sunlight to enter house windows from a low horizon angle during winters. As land value increases, houses are built nearer to each other. In order to preserve some of the open land, house owners may choose to allow construction on the side land of their houses, but not build in front of or behind their house in order to preserve some remnants of open surrounding land. The back area is known as the backyard or back garden
A back garden is a residential garden located at the rear of a property, on the other side of the house from the front garden. Such gardens have a special place in English suburban and gardening culture.
Overview
A back garden arises when the m ...
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Depending on the size of the backyard, it may have any number of items (or none), such as:
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See also
*America's Backyard
America's backyard is a concept often used in political science and international relations contexts to refer to the sphere of influence of the United States, the USA's traditional areas of dominance, especially Latin America.
It is somewh ...
* Backyard breeder
A backyard breeder is an amateur animal breeder whose breeding is considered substandard, with little or misguided effort towards ethical, selective breeding. Unlike puppy mills and other animal mill operations, backyard breeders breed on a sma ...
* Backyard compost
* Backyard chickens
* Backyard furnace
In China, backyard furnaces () were small blast furnaces used by the people of China during the Great Leap Forward (1958–1962). These were constructed in the fields and backyards of communes to further the Great Leap Forward's aims of making ...
* Backyard pond
Water garden or aquatic garden, is a term sometimes used for gardens, or parts of gardens, where any type of water feature is a principal or dominant element. The primary focus is on plants, but they will sometimes also house waterfowl, or orn ...
* Front yard
On a residential area, a front yard (United States, Canada, Australia) or front garden (United Kingdom, Europe) is the portion of land between the street and the front of the house. If it is covered in grass, it may be referred to as a front la ...
* Yard (land)
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