at the bottom of my garden?

Craig Virani: 'the bottom of the garden' is the part where you never go and is over grown and left to go wild and so the fae's take it over and live there cus they know that they will not be disturbed

Kimberlee Bowdish: YAY FAERIES!now go do the hokie pokie.

Delphine Cajka: Well, 'bottom of the garden' means the far end of the back garden, by the back fence, or the back hedge. The fairies and elves and so on would have been afraid of us people, so they stayed away from the house. But they probably like flowers and frogs and hedgehogs, so they come in to the garden, but stay far from the house.

Riley Migl: Hi, I depends on what context this phase was said to you. As others have said this is also true.

Pearlie Medora: Elsie is right :) The bottom of the garden is the back of the garden. By the way, there is no genuine folk tradition of fairies actually living there. You will only see this expression in works of fiction.

Whitney Saborido: T! he earlier responders are right: it just means the part of the garden furthest from the house.By the way, as far as I know (being someone who grew up in the USA, moved to the UK at age 21 and lived there for 30 years) it's a peculiarly British expression. I'm pretty sure I remember hearing it for the first time and thinking "WTF does that mean? How can a garden have a bottom?"...Show more