Yard czy Garden? Jaka jest różnica?

I was asked recently what the difference between garden and yard is.  My first thought was that Americans tend to say yard and in the UK we say garden, but I don't think that is the best answer.

Garden, noun. An area of ground next to a house often with lawn, flowers, trees, shrubs.

Yard, noun.  A relatively small uncultivated area attached to a house or other building.  So an area with no plants.

A yard is also synonym for garden in North America and in some UK dialects.

A yard can be enclosed area of land for some work use.  Like builders' yard, shipyard, dockyard and farmyard.

If someone says backyard or front yard, it is likely that they are meaning front garden and back garden.

Yes, I did write backyard as one word and front yard as two.  Because backyard is used more often, over time it went from two separate words, like front yard, to being hyphenated, back-yard, and now as one word, backyard.

Garden.  

To teren przy domu zasadzony roślinami.

Yard.  

W USA, a także w brytyjskich dialektach, jest to synonim garden.

Również yard to ogrodzony teren do użytku roboczego.  Jak builders' yard, farmyard, shipyard i dockyard