Definitions for shrubbery
ˈʃrʌb ə rishrub·be·ry

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shrubberynoun

   an area where a number of shrubs are planted

2. shrubberynoun

   a collection of shrubs growing together

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shrubberynoun

   A planting of shrubs; a wide border to a garden where shrubs are thickly planted; or a similar larger area with a path winding through it.

2. shrubberynoun

   Shrubs collectively.

3. Etymology: From shrub

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1. Shrubbery

   A shrubbery, shrub border or shrub garden is a part of a garden where shrubs, mostly flowering species, are thickly planted. The original shrubberies were mostly sections of large gardens, with one or more paths winding through it, a less-remembered aspect of the English landscape garden with very few original 18th-century examples surviving. As the fashion spread to smaller gardens, linear shrub borders covered up walls and fences, and were typically underplanted with smaller herbaceous flowering plants. By the late 20th century, shrubs, trees and smaller plants tend to be mixed together in the most visible parts of the garden, hopefully blending successfully. At the same time, shrubs, especially very large ones, have become part of the woodland garden, mixed in with trees, both native species and imported ornamental varieties. The word is first recorded by the OED in a letter of 1748 by Henrietta Knight, Lady Luxborough to the fanatical gardener William Shenstone: "Nature has been so remarkably kind this last Autumn to adorn my Shrubbery with the flowers that usually blow at Whitsuntide". The shrubbery developed to display exciting new imported flowering species, initially mostly from the East Coast of British America, and quickly replaced the older formal "wilderness", with compartments of smaller trees surrounded by hedges, and little colour. It was a further part of the garden, beyond the terrace and flower garden that the house usually opened onto, and when mature provided shade on hot days, some shelter from a wind, and some privacy. The shrubbery was at first the development of the plant collector wing of the growing movement of English gardeners, who in the early and mid-18th century eagerly awaited the new seeds and cuttings arriving at London nurserymen such as Thomas Fairchild (d. 1729) from America. There was some tension between them and the more landscape-oriented gardeners such as Capability Brown, though Brown's designs in fact allowed for flower gardens and shrubberies, which have very rarely survived as well as his landscape vistas in the parks.Shrubbery is also the collective noun for shrubs in other contexts, sometimes used for shrubland, a type of natural landscape dominated by shrubs or bushes. The many distinct types of these include fynbos, maquis, shrub-steppe, shrub swamp and moorland.

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1. shrubbery

   Shrubbery refers to a collection or arrangement of shrubs, small bushes, or hedges planted closely together in a landscaped setting, often serving a decorative purpose. It may also act as a boundary or screen within a garden or yard.

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1. Shrubberynoun

   a collection of shrubs

2. Shrubberynoun

   a place where shrubs are planted

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1. Shrubbery

   A shrubbery is a wide border to a garden where shrubs are thickly planted; or a similar larger area with a path winding through it. A shrubbery was a feature of 19th-century gardens in the English manner, with its origins in the gardenesque style of the early part of the century. A shrubbery was a collection of hardy shrubs, quite distinct from a flower garden, which was a cutting garden to supply flowers in the house. The shrubbery was arranged as a walk, ideally a winding one, that made a circuit that brought the walker back to the terrace of the house. Its paths were gravel, so that it dried quickly after a rain. A walk in the shrubbery offered a chance for a private conversation, and a winding walk among shrubs surrounding even quite a small lawn was a feature of the garden behind a well-furnished Regency suburban villa. "Mr Rushworth," said Lady Bertram, "if I were you, I would have a very pretty shrubbery. One likes to get out into a shrubbery in fine weather." —Jane Austen, Mansfield Park. In the 1980s John Nash's never-executed plans for the garden setting of the Brighton Pavilion, illustrated in Nash's volume Views of the Royal Pavilion, were finally carried out, in connection with the extensive restorations of the Pavilion itself. Its "fairly open landscape of soft lawns dotted with trees and set with lightly-wooded, sinuous shrubberies" are best illustrated in Augustus Charles Pugin's watercolor view c. 1822 of the west front of the Pavilion, reproduced in Nash's publication. The winding perimeter walk circling the lawn among the shrubs and trees, enriched with island beds of herbaceous perennials, began to be laid out in 1814, with a flush of activity 1817-21. Two books of commentaries proved indispensable for the replanting scheme. One was Henry Phillips, who wrote in 1823

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Anagrams for shrubbery »

1. berrybush

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of shrubbery in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of shrubbery in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of shrubbery in a Sentence

1. Ernst Rauch:

   Higher and higher temperatures are leading to ever greater droughts, and high humidity in the winter means that shrubbery grows quickly, creating an easily flammable material in dry summers.

2. Lawrence Gostin:

   You can clear a forest of the shrubbery. But if you leave some shrubs and trees standing, the fire will find them, the virus will find you. It is searching for hosts that are not immune. The fact that you live in New England or New York doesn’t insulate you.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=shrubbery
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Shrubbery
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrubbery
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shrubbery
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=shrubbery
7. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=shrubbery