NOUN
- a garden laid out on regular lines with plants arranged in symmetrical locations or in geometrical designs
How To Use formal garden In A Sentence
- They don't want a large formal garden or something that requires daily upkeep. Times, Sunday Times
- There is a formal garden and wilder parts. The Sun
- Stones were salvaged from a fireplace found on the land, materials matching originals were used, the cable molding that decorated the ceilings was restored and the formal gardens were reborn.
- Smaller gardens may benefit from the use of slow-growing box hedging which was used in formal gardens of old to create geometric patterns, called parterres.
- In the formal gardens, the grandest expanse of all running the full length of the house is the Italian garden, laid out as a geometric parterre with herbaceous plants.
- Yet, though weeds may be banished from the central beds of a formal garden, they were still capable of sturdy growth and a beauty all their own.
- From behind her she heard singing and turned to see women walking back and forth in her formal garden. A Time of War
- Some people like precise formal gardens, some want to play croquet on a big lawn, others like the wild country look.
- The formal garden is not low-maintenance. Times, Sunday Times
- Modern formal gardens use water in geometric pools and metals like steel and aluminium in structures.
