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Knot gardens in tudor times were common features of garden design,a continuous band of interlacing low growing plants formed the out line of the pattern, which some times featured heraldic beasts shaped in sand but was more often a gemetric design whit in a square area. Basedon embroidery over and under work plants of distinctive colour and texture were used to fill the outter frame.The earliest representation of a knot garden is in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili published in 1499, where the