herbaceous border
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
The garden's "long herbaceous border" is another stand-out plant during the season, said Mr Lane.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2012
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
He waits until he is quite sure I have finished and then jumps up with a bark, wipes his paws on my trousers and trots into the herbaceous border again.
From Happy Days by Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander)
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