1.   A headstone in the perennial bed outside the villa marks the grave of a Confederate colonel, Richard Earle, shot by a Union sniper.

2.   Even without a shredder, you can remove the branches from Christmas trees and use them to cover perennial beds.

3.   For that reason, Harvey recommends top dressing perennial beds and around newly planted trees every winter with a new inch of manure.

4.   I began spending more and more time in her prize-winning perennial beds, at the expense of my own modest plot.

5.   I have heard that the branches can be used as mulch for perennial beds, but the ground is already frozen, so what good would it do?

6.   I never use foil tinsel to decorate because I like to chop off the branches after the holidays and lay them over my perennial beds.

7.   I once attempted to instruct an assistant in weeding the perennial bed where the knotweed resides.

8.   I just picked a small bouquet of violets, actually weeded them out of the perennial bed, to be honest.

9.   In my garden, Mexican bush sage is the undisputed star of the perennial bed in late summer and autumn.

10.   In the perennial bed, the brown stalks of asters and crumpled foliage of malva can go.