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extreme gardening
 n.— «Extreme gardening is when you rent a twenty-foot backhoe (amazingly, they require no license!) and buy a diamond sawblade and cut up the asphalt in your parking lot and dig it out with a CAT and have dirt put in and pick a bunch of huge trees and plants and put ’em in place with your giant backhoe, again.» —“On Being and Deliciousness, with Wil Shipley” DrunkenBlog July 21, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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