The once-renowned vast grounds, with formal beds and fountains, are being brought back to life.

If allowed to continue with this little plot next year, I'll try something really zany in the formal bed.

Even if you do not have formal raised beds, you will begin to achieve them by adding all this compost.

There was an Italian garden with terraces and formal beds with flowers in coloured sealing-wax.

Poirot's mind flashed suddenly to that neat prim garden at Ealing with its formal beds.

Another wide lawn, this broken here and there by formal beds of flowers.

Flowers rustled in formal beds, their petals closed against the night, and a small pond gleamed like a mirror a few hundred yards away.

The garden has fountains, sculptures, formal beds, paths, stairs and a terraced setting that some children will find magical.

It was he who designed the huge circular yew hedge in the middle of the rectangular rose garden and its formal beds edged with boxwood.

The untended growth was a tangle that had long ago broken out of the formal beds in which it had been planted.