found: Work cat.: 96-147892: Cowley, J. Beds and borders for year round colour, 1995:p. 5 (A bed is usually thought of as an island with no walls or hedges to define its outlines)
found: LC database, 6/14/96(beds)
found: Web. 3(bed)
found: Random House(bed)
found: Wyman's gardening encyc.(Bedding plants ... planting a large, usually formal, area or "bed" to a single plant, selected for its flower or foliage-color or height. Usually the bed must be planted each year ...)
found: RHS dict. gardening(Bedding, the use of plants in gardens for temporary display ... flower beds)
found: Designing beds and borders, 1996(While beds and borders are often spoken of in tandem, there are real differences worth noting. Strictly speaking, a flower bed is any plot of perennial and annual plants that is designed as a free-standing island, meant to be seen from all sides. A border, by contrast, describes a planting area laid out along the margins of some vertical element, such as a hedge, a stone wall, a fence or a building, that rises behind it to serve as a backdrop. Garden beds)
