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herbaceous border

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herbaceous border
a flower bed that primarily contains nonwoody perennials rather than annuals
herbaceous border
heptastyle
Henri IV style: Place des Vosges, Paris (1605–12)
Henri II style: west side of the Court of the Louvre
A permanent border of nonwoody perennials, often against an evergreen background or a stone wall.
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Shoot in a rose, or a calceolaria, or an herbaceous border, or something, I gather, and you have made a formal proposal of marriage without any of the trouble of rehearsing a long speech and practising appropriate gestures in front of your bedroom looking-glass.
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville View in context
 
 
 
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