flower-bed

Da filled the bucket with soil from the empty flower-bed in the back garden and set the tree inside it.

dublin: tree-trimming James Claffey 2011

The change wasn't immediately obvious, but as she walked around the gardens, she did see the occasional spinning globe of light moving along a hedge or over a flower-bed.

red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

This morning, in bright sunshine, I cut the grass on our tiny patch in the front of the house, and cleared the thistles and briars from the flower-bed...summer is on the way.

Archive 2008-04-01 Joanna Bogle 2008

The Bishop had just picked up the basket in a flower-bed.

Les Miserables 2008

After ordering a very choice dinner and reviewing the condition of her rooms, she walked about the grounds, so as to be seen standing near a flower-bed in the court-yard of the chateau, like the mistress of the house, on the arrival of the coach from Paris.

A Start in Life 2007

And she ran to a flower-bed, and pulling a few polyanthuses, rhododendrons, and other flowers, made herself a little wreath, and danced before the King and Queen so drolly and prettily, that everybody was delighted.

The Rose and the Ring 2006

And Maggie to have a flower-bed on your front lawn!

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

A wide terrace led from the house to the garden; before the terrace flaunted a long flower-bed, covered with roses; at each end of the flower-bed grew two acacias, which had been trained to grow into the shape of a screw by its late owner.

A Sportsman's Sketches 2003

He stole across the lawn and stepped over the flower-bed, carefully avoiding making any marks.

Madame Midas 2003

There were no footmarks on the flower-bed under the window, which was the only place where footmarks would show, as the lawn itself was hard and dry.

Madame Midas 2003