design bedding

noun

: an arrangement of herbaceous plants in a definite pattern of contrasting foliage or blossom

the atrocities of design bedding still persist in some public gardens as geometric figures or stylized objects stiffly painted in varied colors of leaf and flowers

—distinguished from carpet bedding

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