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
The garden, likewise, doesn't just mean a herbaceous border or fruitful orchard.
From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2010
There is a very fair specimen in Kew Gardens, between the pond and the "herbaceous border."
From A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by Swinburne, T. R.
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