Is the following word order acceptable? 'In her garden grows a cherry tree.' [closed]

I need your opinion about the word order in the following sentence:

• “In her garden grows a cherry tree.“

Is it grammatically acceptable?

Solution 1:

The sentence is fine, although the normal word order is "A cherry tree grows in her garden."

"In her garden is a cherry tree" is an example of locative inversion, where the verb and subject of a sentence have swapped positions, and the locative ("in her garden") has moved to the front of the sentence.

This pdf has some more examples, for instance:

"Outside were five police officers"

"Down the hill rolled the baby carriage"

Locative inversion is mainly used in written English, for emphasis or to sound poetic.

Solution 2:

"A cherry-tree grows in her garden", or "there is a cherry tree growing in her garden" would be more usual, but "in her garden grows a cherry-tree" is certainly acceptable, and indeed rather poetic.