An ornamental flower garden

Usage examples of parterre.

The rain had lifted a little and the sun shone out on the bloom of the lovely parterre where the Marches profited by a smiling moment to wander among the statues and the roses heavy with the shower.

And to make matters worse, Petter was certain he could hear the sound of laughter through the powder smoke, as though the creature was mocking their efforts to harm it as it slowly alighted on the parterre in front of the East Wing.

The hedge, like the parterre, was badly overgrown or, where not overgrown, either uprooted or chopped downa hopeless tangle of hornbeam, whitethorn, privet and holly.

He went over to his study window and stood frowning out over the parterres and parklands of Swanholm.

Nicky knew from Anne that its intricate design dated back to the eighteenth century, including the parterres, those ornamental areas where flower beds and paths formed a distinctive pattern.

There was a small green lawn in the center of the garden, and this was bordered by shrub roses, the parterres were laid out on all four sides of the lawn, beyond the shrubs.

Beds of other old-fashioned plants were set in the parterres, as well as such herbs as hyssop, savory, thyme and rosemary, mingling with pinks, pansies, violas and cistus.

Pushing herself to her feet, she walked down the path between the parterres, endeavoring to shake off the past, to quench the memories.

At the Victoria port he found a confused mass of ships of all nations: English, French, American, and Dutch, men-of-war and trading vessels, Japanese and Chinese junks, sempas, tankas, and flower-boats, which formed so many floating parterres.

In fact, of the twenty rose-trees which formed the parterre, not one bore the mark of the slug, nor were there evidences anywhere of the clustering aphis which is so destructive to plants growing in a damp soil.

The drive opened out into a wooded park with a gaunt, battlemented mansion set amid the broken terraces and parterres of that saddest of all spectacles, an old-world garden run to wilderness and bathed in the red glow of the setting sun.

Als sie sich unter dem dritten Haus befanden, erklommen sie vorsichtig die Stufen zum Parterre, huschten durchs Foyer und gelangten nach draußen.

The undulating prairie, waving with flowers, lay spread out before them, more beautiful under nature's bountiful adornings than the most artistic parterre, park or lawn which the hand of man ever reared.

A modern dwelling and luxurious in everything that wealth could suggest for comfort, it stood in the midst of exquisitely kept lawns, with groups of trees, parterres of flowers massed in colors, with greenhouse, grapery and garden .

I noticed that the green plants kept nearer the top of the sea, while the red were at a greater depth, leaving to the black or brown hydrophytes the care of forming gardens and parterres in the remote beds of the ocean.