Wikipedia
A knot garden is a garden of very formal design in a square frame, consisting of a variety of aromatic plants and culinary herbs including germander, marjoram, thyme, southernwood, lemon balm, hyssop, costmary, acanthus, mallow, chamomile, rosemary, Calendulas, Violas and Santolina. Most knot gardens now have edges made from box (Buxus sempervirens), whose leaves have a sweet smell when bruised. The paths in between are usually laid with fine gravel. However, the original designs of knot gardens did not have the low box hedges, and knot gardens with such hedges might more accurately be called parterres.
Most Renaissance knot gardens were composed of square compartments. A small garden might consist of one compartment, while large gardens might contain six or eight compartments.
Usage examples of "knot garden".
They're not much at this time of year - and they're nothing compared to my gardens in Oxfordshire - but the knot garden is fun.
In front of them, a small knot garden and an ivy-covered arch led to wide expanses of green lawn.
Did he and his father wander the paths in the dim starlight, checking for aphids on the roses and intrusive weeds in the neat pattern of the knot garden?
At first I took the pungent scent wafting from her clothes for bonemeal and thought she had been tending the knot garden.
She watched musicians in full tuxedos wheeling odd-shaped instruments in and out of the main entrance, a string quartet sawing away in a knot garden beside a fountain, a harpist on a lawn at the side in front of a pair of French doors, and a T-shirted man with long hair striking the strings of an electric guitar under the curve of a balcony.
And he led her through the arch to find himself in a knot garden where, instead of flowers, herbs were arranged.
The pretty knot garden his mother had tended was now a gently rolling span of cropped green grass.
A collection of miniature conifers had been trimmed surgically and a boxwood knot garden was as intricate as any maze I’.