knot garden
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A knot garden is an elaborately designed garden, typically featuring flowers or herbs. This garden style is a sophisticated development of the medieval knot garden, where plants were separated by low hedges of boxwood or other controllable plants. The patterns created in these gardens were ornamental. The term "knot garden" was first used in 1519.12
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