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herbaceous border

British  

noun

  1. a flower bed that primarily contains nonwoody perennials rather than annuals

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The students created a lawn, gravel and winter garden, a vegetable bed and a herbaceous border.

From BBC Apr. 29, 2022

The 1980s and 1990s were decades when books and glossy magazines trumpeted the English herbaceous border, color-coordinated, very photogenic and impossibly demanding.

From Washington Post Apr. 8, 2019

The north route, toward the royal tea tent and the herbaceous border?

From Slate Apr. 13, 2013

It is Winsor and Newton, Queen Victoria and Beatrix Potter, the herbaceous border and the lost summers of childhood.

From The Guardian Feb. 20, 2011

Two singles were run, and then Kippy placed one nicely into the herbaceous border for four.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 5, 1917 by Various

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