Editing Backyard (section)


{{Short description|Residential garden or other land behind a house}}
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{{wiktionary|backyard|back yard}}
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[[File:StateLibQld 1 162315 Irene and Cecil Harveyson posing in their backyard in Ashgrove, Brisbane, ca. 1929.jpg|thumb|right|A back yard in [[Brisbane|Brisbane, Queensland, Australia]], in 1929]]
[[File:Back of Iford Manor, from Peto Garden - geograph.org.uk - 1009631.jpg|thumb|right|The back garden of [[Iford Manor]] was designed by [[Harold Peto]].]]

A '''backyard''', or '''back yard''' (known in the United Kingdom as a '''back garden''' or just '''[[garden]]'''), is a [[Yard (land)|yard]] at the back of a [[house]], common in suburban developments in the Western world.<ref name=Hall>{{cite book |title=The Life and Death of the Australian Backyard |author=Tony Hall |publisher=[[CSIRO Publishing]] |year=2010 |isbn=9780643098169 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nRF1zMXTkukC}}</ref>

It is typically a [[residential garden]] located at the rear of a property, on the other side of the [[house]] from the [[front yard]]. While Western gardens are almost universally based on plants, the "garden" (which etymologically may imply a shorthand of [[botanical garden]]) may use plants sparsely or not at all. Hence, the terms ''yard'' and ''garden'' are for the context of this article interchangeable in most cases.