Garden delighted English nurses (4)

I believe the answer is:

eden

'garden' is the definition.
(Garden of Eden in the Bible)

'delighted english nurses' is the wordplay.
'nurses' indicates a hidden word (nurse can mean holding closely).
'EDEN' is hidden in the letters of 'delighted english'.

(Other definitions for eden that I've seen before include "at Number Ten once?" , "Leading 11 [CONSERVATIVE]" , "Adam and Eve's first home" , "The first habitat" , "prime minister in the past" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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