surrounding
v.v. to be all around something or someone on every side. You use this when you want to describe things that circle a central point.
v. to be present on all sides of something; to encircle or encompass. Transitive — requires a direct object representing the entity being enclosed.
Tall trees are surrounding the small house.
The police are surrounding the building to prevent anyone from leaving through the back exits.
A dense fog began surrounding the mountain peak, obscuring the hikers' view of the valley below and forcing them to halt their descent.
The verb is transitive and takes a direct object. Often used in the progressive form to describe a physical state.
The fence is surrounding to the gardenThe fence is surrounding the gardenSurround is a transitive verb and does not take the preposition 'to' before its object.