1638 G. Sandys Paraphr. Lamentations Ieremiah ii. 3 in His Tabernacle He with Violence Hath now demolish't, like a Garden Fence.
1856 R. W. Emerson viii. 131 I suppose, never nation built their party-walls so thick, or their garden-fences so high.
2009 17 Nov. 20/5 Flowers skipped over garden fences to colonise disturbed land.