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knot garden

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knot garden
A complicated garden design, usually small in area, and making use of plants set in geometric patterns, low hedges of shrubs trimmed into ornamental shapes as borders, and green foliage set off by sharp color contrast.


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potager or kitchen herb garden which could be classified into different styles, the elaborately patterned knot garden or the rustic freestyle cottage garden.
Now the garden offers features such as: A knot garden based on a design of 1617, from the first gardening book for women called A Country Housewife's Garden.
Over the years they have worked on different areas of the garden, creating a terraced effect, with the lower terrace having an Elizabethan knot garden feel.
 
 
 
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