herbaceous border
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
Lawn tennis she would not permit, out of respect for her herbaceous border which surrounded the place of entertainment.
From The Spinners by Phillpotts, Eden
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