nature strip

plural nature strips

1. AustraliaregionalAn area of grass beside a roadway, possibly with a few trees or shrubs, lying between the roadway proper and the footpath, if there is one; a tree lawn.

   2009, Mary Horsfall, Creating Your Eco-Friendly Garden, CSIRO Publishing, page 107, Along our road there are no footpaths, but there are wide nature strips on which many residents have planted gardens of one sort or another.

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   Dreamt I stood on a nature strip where a Kombi van was parked.

   1998, Helen Garner, How to End a Story: Collected Diaries 1978–1998, Text Publishing, published 2025, page 735

   There was a path across the nature strip that was frequently used by pedestrians to cross the service road.

   2004, Australian High Court, The Australian Law Journal Reports, volume 78, page 572

   Neighbours mowed their green-jube nature strips bordering Agatha′s garden and did not report her to the local council.

   2005, Maurilia Meehan, The Bad Seed, unnumbered page

   Mrs Harridene accuses the said three schoolchildren of throwing bunches of seedpods onto her corrugated iron roof, having stolen the bunches of seedpods from the jacaranda tree located on her nature strip.

   2015, Rosalie Ham, The Dressmaker: A Novel, Penguin, →ISBN, page 42