Some gardens now resort to shears but this gives a more solid effect, being the style more often found on the continent where it is known as boskage. |
And there at last was the cave-mouth hidden under the boskage of the leaves. |
This way thrust itself like a black tongue into the boskage and vanished in the depths. |
The roses were in bloom, two nightingales soliloquized in the boskage, a cuckoo was just going out of tune among the lime trees. |
For a while I had noticed the road seemed flanked by a mass of boskage below it on the right-hand side. |
In northern Europe the pleaching is usually this very narrowand two dimensional shape, but there are many examples of wider, three dimensional hedges correctly termed boskage. |