particles
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Designed by acclaimed landscape architect Anthony “Tony” Holmes of Philadelphia, the grounds are divided into parterres or “rooms,” featuring an array of shrubs, perennials, annuals, herbs, heirloom roses, vines and specimen trees.
From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2022
It has to be 50 acres and it’s all parterres with vegetables and flowers.
From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2022
There are remnants of terraced boxwood parterres and early brick orangeries.
From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2012
Nature abhors a straight line, maintained Kent, as he set about demolishing walls and ploughing parterres.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The grounds, in places, bore signs of the geometric Victorian trimness which had been their original form: drained fish-pools; the long white colonnades of skeleton pergolas; rock-bordered parterres where flowers no longer grew.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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