knot garden

American  

noun

1. an intricately designed flower or herb garden with plants arranged to create an interlacing pattern, sometimes with fanciful topiary and carefully tended paths.

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knot garden British  

noun

1. (esp formerly) a formal garden of intricate design

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Etymology

Origin of knot garden

First recorded in 1510–20

Example Sentences

The back side of the house, once the location of a small swimming pool, was now a boxwood knot garden in a frame of pea gravel.

From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2017

The grounds feature an Elizabethan knot garden, a medicinal herb garden, a circular fragrance garden and a sunken garden, modeled after the pond garden at England’s Hampton Court Palace.

From Washington Post • Mar. 19, 2015

Katherine Parr, the king's intended sixth bride, sits calmly armoured by irony, rescuing one pitiful creature by requesting "that it be repatriated to the pond in the knot garden".

From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2013

His vegetable mosaic terrine resembled a French knot garden, bordered in chard, paved with sumac-spiced rice and pebbled with carrot and zucchini.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2011

Verey had contributed a knot garden of 30 herbs to Charlie Gale's "British Heritage," an example of a classical garden.

From Time Magazine Archive