allee
A walkway lined with trees or tall shrubs.
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ALLEE - A very formal design of planting trees lining both sides of a path or drive.
ALLELOPATHY - The release of chemicals by certain plants that will prevent the growing of other plants nearby. Walnut trees are very well known to do this.
Southwest: Shirofugen or 'Cascade Snow' cherries, Texas red oak, 'Allee' lacebark elm. Midwest: hornbeams, redbuds, silverbells (Halesia). Upper Midwest: Kentucky coffeetree, "for its bold texture.
Follow the curved white steps to the colonnaded memorial pavilion, an allee of interlaced yaupon holly trained to form an archway. Here in the shade, hostas, ajuga, ivy and vinca ramble over the ground.
Across the channel, France has given us the parterre and the allee, sure marks of man's hand on the land. Even the Italian villa lays out its paths and beds in formal, straight lines.
To remind them of the tropical riches of their home countries, she's planting exotic fruits -- Kieffer lime trees, an allee of persimmons, pawpaw fruit, kiwi. Asparagus ferns provide the groundcover for the median strips.
We are, for the same reason, drawn to arbors, bowers, allees, and pergolas. The roof need not cover your entire garden.
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