Phoenix Park in the northwest is the largest open space, but squares like St. Stephen's Green are the garden oases of the city.

With its broad lawns, mature trees and central location five miles west of downtown, Windsor Square is a garden oasis in the heart of a world-class city.

Burncoose gardens: a garden oasis in the Minewastes of Cornwall by F. J. Williams C.B.E., Arnold Dance, David Knuckey.

Decks, balconies, front porches - you name it - can become a garden oasis with a few well-chosen flowers and some beautiful and unique pots.

The balancing act between affordable housing and garden oases amid urban blight held little interest for Pilar Johnson-Scott, the P.T.A. president at P.S. 76.

It was a cosy and fascinating place, in a little garden oasis of village-like antiquity where huge, friendly cats sunned themselves atop a convenient shed.

These days, the dedicated urbanites find it harder and harder to leave this suburb - oops, garden oasis, which is somehow part of the city.

Tankersley stated that Al-Marah was Arabic for "a verdant garden oasis", and Mark Miller said the name was selected by Carl Raswan.

In Mount Vernon, Carol Capobianco took a different tack, carving out a small garden oasis for herself amid miles of concrete and unending traffic.

He recently created a garden oasis for his sister as part of his web-series for Hayneedle.