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Gardener's garters   /gˈɑrdənərz gˈɑrtərz/   Listen
Gardener's garters

noun
1.
Perennial grass of marshy meadows and ditches having broad leaves; Europe and North America.  Synonyms: lady's laces, Phalaris arundinacea, reed canary grass, ribbon grass.






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"Gardener's garters" Quotes from Famous Books



... centuries as carefully as were flowers,—striped hollies, variegated myrtles, and bays being the gardener's pride,—yet in our old American gardens few plants were grown for their variegated or odd-colored foliage. The familiar and ever-present ribbon-grass, also called striped grass, canary grass, and gardener's garters,—whose pretty expanded panicles formed an almost tropical effect at the base of the garden hedge; the variegated wandering jew, the striped leaves of some varieties of day-lilies; the dusty-miller, with its "frosty pow" (which was properly a house plant), fill the short ...
— Home Life in Colonial Days • Alice Morse Earle



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