Editing Road verge

{{Short description|Vegetative strip beside a roadway}}
{{Redirect|Nature Strip|the racehorse|Nature Strip (horse)}}
[[File:Massachusetts-devils strip.JPG|thumb|A curb strip in suburban [[Greater Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]. Outside of rural areas in New England, devil strips are narrow – the one pictured is {{convert|52|in|cm m}} from curb to sidewalk.  They are usually not maintained by the municipality, but rather by the property owner, and are used primarily to provide space for utility poles.]]
A '''road verge''' is a strip of [[groundcover]] consisting of [[grass]] or [[garden plant]]s, and sometimes also [[shrub]]s and [[tree]]s, located between a [[roadway]] and a [[sidewalk]].<ref name="worthington"/> Verges are known by dozens of other names such as '''grass strip''', '''nature strip''', '''curb strip''', or '''park strip''', the usage of which is often quite regional.

Road verges are often considered [[public property]], with maintenance usually being a [[municipal]] responsibility. Some local authorities, however, require abutting [[property owner]]s to help maintain (e.g. [[irrigation|watering]], [[mowing]], [[edger|edging]], [[hedge trimmer|trimming]]/[[pruning]] and [[weed control|weeding]]) their respective verge areas, as well as clean the adjunct [[footpath]]s and [[street gutter|gutter]]s,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/bicycle_pedestrian/publications/sidewalk2/sidewalks210.cfm |title=Designing Sidewalks and Trails for Access, Part II of II: Best Practices Design Guide, Section 10.1.3: Maintenance responsibilities|date=25 September 2017 |work=Bicycle and Pedestrian Program |publisher=Federal Highways Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation |access-date= 10 March 2018}}</ref> as a form of [[community service|community work]].

Benefits of having road verges include visual aesthetics, increased safety and comfort of sidewalk users, protection from spray from passing vehicles, and a space for benches, [[bus shelter]]s, street lights, and other public amenities. Verges are also often part of [[sustainability]] for [[water conservation]] or the management of [[urban runoff]] and [[water pollution]]<ref name="rainwatercollecting">{{cite web |url=http://www.rainwatercollecting.com/blog/?p=448 |title=Passive Rainwater Harvesting |access-date=7 July 2010 |date=19 September 2009 |first=Jeremy |last=Delost |work=The Rainwater Observer |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091223200107/http://www.rainwatercollecting.com/blog/?p=448 |archive-date=23 December 2009 }}</ref><ref name="smgov">{{citation |url=http://www.smgov.net/uploadedFiles/Departments/OSE/Categories/Landscape/PLP%2005.27.09.pdf |title=Parkway Landscaping Policy for the City of Santa Monica |date=1 February 2010 |publisher=City of [[Santa Monica, California]] |access-date= 7 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612182146/http://smgov.net/uploadedFiles/Departments/OSE/Categories/Landscape/PLP%2005.27.09.pdf |archive-date=12 June 2010 }}</ref><ref name="enewsbuilder">{{cite journal |url=http://www.enewsbuilder.net/watercon/e_article000771115.cfm?x=bbrDcbK,b2FRwTrq,w |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722043546/http://www.enewsbuilder.net/watercon/e_article000771115.cfm?x=bbrDcbK,b2FRwTrq,w |archive-date=22 July 2011 |title=Pruning the Parkway Strip |journal=WaterWise |volume=4 |number=3 |date=14 March 2007 |access-date= 7 July 2010}}</ref> and can provide useful wildlife habitat. Snow that has been ploughed off the street in colder climates often is stored in the area of the verge by default.{{citation needed|date=March 2016}}

In the [[British Isles]], road verges serve as important habitats for a range of plants, including rare [[wildflower]]s.<ref name=BBC-verges>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33029385 |title=Roadside verges 'last refuge for wild flowers' |work=[[BBC News]] |last=Briggs |first=Helen |date=6 June 2015 |access-date=6 June 2015}}</ref> In the UK, around 700 different species of wildflower can be found growing on verges, including 29 of the country's 52 species of [[orchid]].<ref name="NHM-verges">{{Cite web |title=Why road verges are important habitats for wildflowers and animals |url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/why-road-verges-are-important-wildlife-habitats.html |access-date=2023-04-26 |website=www.nhm.ac.uk |language=en}}</ref> Verges can also support a wide range of animals and plants that may have been displaced from their usual [[grassland]] habitats, as the soil is not extensively fertilised and relatively undisturbed by human activity. Animals that reside on verges range from small insects and amphibians, to larger reptiles, mammals and birds, which rely on verges as a [[Wildlife corridor|corridor]] connecting areas of undamaged habitat. As a result, verges may be managed by local areas to encourage biodiversity and conserve the ecosystems that rely on them.<ref name="NHM-verges"></ref> 

[[File:Roadside Verge.jpg|thumb|A sign on a road verge in [[Northumberland]], [[England]], indicating that the verge is being managed by the local council to maintain populations of wild plants]]

The main disadvantage of a road verge is that the right-of-way must be wider, increasing the cost of the road. In some localities, a wider verge offers opportunity for later road widening, should the traffic usage of a road demand this. For this reason, footpaths are usually sited a significant distance from the curb.{{citation needed|date=March 2016}}

Certain nutrient amounts in a verge's soil can be influenced by the amount of traffic on the road it sits beside; roads with heavier traffic tend to have more [[nitrate]] in the soil due to [[nitrogen compounds]] from [[air pollution]] leaching out of the atmosphere and into the ground.<ref name="NHM-verges"></ref>

==Sustainable urban and landscape design==
[[File:Treelawn2.JPG|thumb|300px|Planted [[rain garden]] in the "tree lawn" zone, Raleigh, North Carolina.]]
In urban and suburban areas, [[urban runoff]] from private and civic properties can be guided by [[grading (engineering)|grading]] and [[bioswale]]s for [[rainwater harvesting]] collection and [[bioretention]] within the "tree-lawn" – parkway zone in [[rain garden]]s. This is done for reducing runoff of rain and domestic water: for their carrying waterborne pollution off-site into [[storm drain]]s and sewer systems; and for the [[groundwater recharge]] of [[aquifer]]s.<ref name="rainwatercollecting"/>

In some cities, such as [[Santa Monica, California]], city code mandates specify: <blockquote>Parkways, the area between the outside edge of the sidewalk and the inside edge of the curb which are a component of the Public Right of Way (PROW) – that the landscaping should require little or no irrigation and the area produce no runoff.<ref name="smgov"/></blockquote>

For Santa Monica, another reason for this use of "tree-lawns" is to reduce current beach and [[Santa Monica Bay]] [[marine pollution|ocean pollution]] that is measurably higher at city outfalls. New construction and remodeling projects needing [[building permit]]s require that [[landscape design]] submittals include [[garden design]] plans showing the means of compliance.<ref name="smgov" />

In some cities and counties, such as [[Portland, Oregon]], street and highway departments are regrading and planting [[rain garden]]s in road verges to reduce boulevard and highway runoff. This practice can be useful in areas with either independent [[Storm drain|Storm sewers]] or [[combined sewers|combined storm and sanitary sewers]], reducing the frequency of pollution, treatment costs, and released overflows of untreated sewage into rivers and oceans during rainstorms.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.portlandonline.com/BES/index.cfm?c=34598|title=Sustainable Stormwater Management|access-date=2010-04-28}}</ref>

==Rural roadsides==
In some countries, the road verge can be a corridor of vegetation that remains after adjacent land has been cleared. Considerable effort in supporting conservation of the remnant vegetation is prevalent in Australia, where significant tracts of land are managed as part of the ''roadside conservation'' strategies by government agencies.<ref name="pandora.nla.gov.au"/><ref>{{Citation |author1=Western Australia. Roadside Conservation Committee |title=Roadsides -- the vital link : a decade of roadside conservation in Western Australia (1985-1995) |date=1995 |publisher=Roadside Conservation Committee |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/23235561 |access-date=2012-04-14 }}</ref>

==Gallery==
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File:Ginkgo Riverside, Illinois.JPG|[[Ginkgo]] street trees in the "boulevard" area, in [[Riverside, Illinois]]
File:Treelawn1.JPG|A planted [[garden]] in the "tree lawn", in [[Raleigh, North Carolina]]
File:Oak Park Boulevard.jpg|A "parkway" with [[street trees]] in [[Oak Park, Illinois]]
File:Tree Lawn at Night.jpg|A tree lawn with [[street trees]] in [[Shaker Heights, Ohio]]
File:A Tree Lawn in Daytime.jpg|A tree lawn with [[street trees]] in [[Shaker Heights, Ohio]]
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==Terminology==
The term ''verge'' has many [[synonym]]s and [[dialect]]al differences. Some [[dialect]]s and [[idiolect]]s lack a specific term for this area, instead using a [[circumlocution]].<ref name="tls">{{cite news|url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/the-triumph-of-slang/ |title=The triumph of slang|first=John A. C. |last=Greppin |date=1 February 2002 |work=[[The Times]] Literary Supplement |publisher=Times Newspapers Limited |access-date=10 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://dialect.redlog.net/staticmaps/q_60.html | title = What do you call the area of grass between the sidewalk and the road? (Harvard Dialect Survey)}}</ref>

Terms used include:
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* Berm: [[Pennsylvania]], northern [[Indiana]], [[Ohio]], [[Michigan]], [[Wisconsin]], [[New Zealand]]<ref name="dictionary-vol6">{{cite book |title=Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume VI: Contrastive Maps, Index to Entry Labels, Questionnaire, and Fieldwork Data |edition=1st |editor-first=Joan Houston |editor-last=Hall |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=2013 |isbn=978-0674066533 |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofamer0000unse_a4m8 }}{{page needed|date=June 2022}}</ref>
* Besidewalk<ref>{{ cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/fugitives/sidewalk.html|title=Between the sidewalk and the curb|publisher=[[The Atlantic]]|date=7 December 1998|access-date=19 May 2020}}{{dead link|date=February 2021}}</ref>
* Boulevard: [[Detroit, Michigan]]; [[North Dakota]]; [[Minnesota]]; [[Iowa]]; [[Illinois]]; Ohio; [[Wisconsin]]; [[Upper Midwest|United States Upper Midwest]];<ref name="dictionary-vol6"/> [[Winnipeg]], and western [[Canada]];<ref>{{citation|url=http://vancouver.ca/files/cov/boulevard-gardening-guidelines.pdf|title=Boulevard Gardening Guidelines |publisher=City of [[Vancouver]], British Columbia |access-date=28 October 2017}}</ref> [[Toronto|Toronto, Ontario]];<ref>{{Cite web|date=June 11, 2020|title=TORONTO MUNICIPAL CODE CHAPTER 743, STREETS AND SIDEWALKS, USE OF|url=https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/municode/1184_743.pdf|website=Toronto}}</ref> [[Markham, Ontario]]; [[Kitchener, Ontario]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.kitchener.ca/en/resourcesGeneral/Documents/DSD_ENG_C-of-K---Standard-Specifications_November-2017.pdf |title=Standard Specifications, City of Kitchener |access-date=2018-08-28 |archive-date=2018-08-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180828071140/https://www.kitchener.ca/en/resourcesGeneral/Documents/DSD_ENG_C-of-K---Standard-Specifications_November-2017.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* Boulevard strip: U.S. Upper Midwest
* Common: New England, generally describes a large strip of grass. Also refers to park-like common-use green spaces in small town centers.
* Curb lawn: [[Kalamazoo, Michigan]];<ref>{{ cite web |url=http://www.kalamazoocity.org/portal/pubserve.php?page_id=312 |title=Departments : Public Services : Public Works : Fall Leaf Collection |publisher=City of Kalamazoo |access-date=2012-06-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920053125/http://www.kalamazoocity.org/portal/pubserve.php?page_id=312 |archive-date=2012-09-20 }}</ref> [[Elyria, Ohio]];<ref>{{ cite news |url=http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/2012/03/26/police-find-man-dead-in-curb-lawn/ |title=Police find man dead in curb lawn |publisher=The Chronicle-Telegram |author=Rona Proudfoot |date=March 26, 2012 |access-date=2012-06-15 }}</ref> [[Miami County, Ohio]];<ref>{{ cite web |url=http://www.troyohio.gov/whotocall.html |title=Who Do I Call? |publisher=[[Troy, Ohio|City of Troy]] |access-date=2012-06-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510152625/http://www.troyohio.gov/whotocall.html |archive-date=2012-05-10 }}</ref> [[Greenville, South Carolina]]<ref>{{ cite web |url=http://www.greenvillesc.gov/publicworks/EngineeringDSM.aspx |title=Design and Specifications Manual |publisher=City of Greenville |year=2012 |access-date=2012-06-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120605232652/http://www.greenvillesc.gov/PublicWorks/EngineeringDSM.aspx |archive-date=2012-06-05 }}</ref>
* Curb strip: [[New Jersey]], [[New York (state)|New York]], [[North Carolina]], [[Florida]], Ohio, Indiana, [[Massachusetts]], [[Michigan]], [[Iowa]], [[Kansas]], [[Nebraska]], [[Oregon]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]]<ref name="dictionary-vol6"/>
* Devil strip or devilstrip: [[Akron, Ohio]]; [[Northeast Ohio]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/column?oid=oid%3A79961|title=Mr. Smarty Pants|work=[[The Austin Chronicle]]|date=2000-12-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Dictionary of American Regional English: Introduction and A-C |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofamer01arie |url-access=registration |quote=devil strip. |page=[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofamer01arie/page/55 55]|author=Cassidy, Frederic Gomes |author2=Hall, Joan Houston  |edition=6th |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=1985 |isbn =978-0-674-20511-6 |access-date=2009-03-20 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Bob |last=Dyer |title=Akron's Grass is One of a Kind |url=http://www.ohio.com/news/dyer/bob-dyer-akron-s-grass-is-one-of-a-kind-1.325843 |work=[[Akron Beacon Journal]] |date=August 8, 2012 |access-date=August 11, 2012 }}</ref> This term was once used more widely to refer to the space between tracks on a streetcar line, a space not wide enough to stand in as cars passed.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Electric Interurban Railways in America |url=https://archive.org/details/electricinterurb00hilt |url-access=registration |first1=George W. |last1=Hilton |first2=John F. |last2=Due |isbn=978-0-8047-4014-2 |publisher=Stanford University Press |date=1960 |page=[https://archive.org/details/electricinterurb00hilt/page/51 51]}}</ref>
* Drivestrip or Drive Strip
* Extension lawn: [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}
* Furniture zone, also landscape zone: a term used by urban planners, indicating its suitability for "[[street furniture]]" such as utility poles and fire hydrants, as well as trees or planters<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.portlandoregon.gov/transportation/article/370416 |format=PDF |title=Foster Road Transportation & Streetscape Plan |publisher=Office of Transportation, City of [[Portland, Oregon]] |date=9 July 2003 |pages=10–12 and 14–15}}</ref>
* Grassplot: [[East Coast of the United States]], [[Pennsylvania]]<ref name="dictionary-vol6"/>
* Governor’s Strip: [[Delaware]]
* Hellstrip<ref>{{cite book|title=Hellstrip Gardening: Create a Paradise between the Sidewalk and the Curb |first=Evelyn |last=Hadden |others=Photography by Joshua McCullough |publisher=Timber Press |year=2014 |isbn=978-1604693324 }}</ref>
* Island strip: [[Long Island, New York]]{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}
*Long acre – a traditional term for wide grassy road verges, used by grazing herds or flocks moving from place to place
* Median: [[Washington (state)|Washington]], [[Oregon]]{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}
* Mow strip: SF East Bay Area Northern California 
* Nature strip: [[Australia]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Australian Word Map |url= https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/resources/aus/word/map/search/word/nature%20strip/Gippsland/|work=The Macquarie Dictionary|access-date=2 September 2021}}</ref>
* Neutral ground: [[Gulf Coast of the United States|U.S. Gulf states]]<ref name="dictionary-vol6"/><ref>{{cite book |title=Random House Unabridged Dictionary |year=1997 |publisher=[[Random House]], Inc. |url=http://dictionary.infoplease.com/neutral-ground}}</ref>
* Park strip: [[Ohio]],<ref name="worthington" /> [[Utah]]
* Parking: [[Illinois]], [[Iowa]], [[Western United States]]<ref name="dictionary-vol6"/>
* Parking strip: [[Washington (state)|Washington]], [[Oregon]], [[Utah]], much of [[California]]<ref name="dictionary-vol6"/>
* Parkrow: [[Iowa]], [[Oregon]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ashland.or.us/Page.asp?NavID=13559 |title=Weed Abatement |work=City of Ashland |publisher=City of [[Ashland, Oregon]] |access-date=12 October 2017}}</ref>
* Parkway: [[Grand Rapids, Michigan]]; [[Greater Los Angeles Area|Greater Los Angeles]]; [[San Francisco Bay Area]]; [[West Coast of the United States]]; [[Casper, Wyoming]]; Ohio; [[Illinois]]; [[Missouri]]; [[Florida]]; [[Texas]]<ref name="dictionary-vol6"/><ref name="WebsterWorld">{{cite book |title=Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language |edition=Second College |year=1970 |editor-last=Guralnik |editor-first=David B. |publisher=The World Publishing Company|title-link=Webster's New World Dictionary }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Parkway Standards|url=https://www.casperwy.gov/government/departments/community_development/code_enforcement/parkway_standards|publisher=Community Development, City of Casper, Wyoming|access-date=24 June 2022}}</ref>
* Parkway strip: [[Austin, Texas]]; [[Fort Collins, Colorado]]<ref name="infernogarden">{{cite web|url=https://www.fcgov.com/gardens/our-gardens/xeric-parkway-strip|title=Xeric Parkway Strip: Xeriscape Plants for Tough Conditions |date= 7 July 2010 |work=The Gardens on Spring Creek |publisher=City of [[Fort Collins, Colorado]] |access-date=10 March 2018}}</ref>
* Planter zone: [[SmartCode]]/New Urbanist terminology<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.transect.org/codes.html|title=Codes & Manuals |publisher=Center for Applied Transect Studies |access-date=19 June 2011}}</ref>
* Planting strip: [[Berkeley, California]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cityofberkeley.info/tree_planting |title=Tree Planting |work=TREES/PARKS |publisher=Parks Division, City of [[Berkeley, California]] |access-date=29 December 2017}}</ref> [[Seattle, Washington]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.seattle.gov/utilities/environment-and-conservation/lawn-and-garden/food-gardening/planting-strips |title=Food Gardening |publisher=City of [[Seattle, Washington]] |access-date=2 November 2019}}</ref>
* Right-of-way: [[Wisconsin]], [[Illinois]]
* Road allowance: [[Ottawa|Ottawa, Canada]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ottawa.ca/en/social_com/rural/roadmaintenance/ruralroads/index.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130115155148/http://ottawa.ca/en/social_com/rural/roadmaintenance/ruralroads/index.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date= 15 January 2013 |title= Roads |work=City of Ottawa |publisher=City of [[Ottawa]], Ontario |year=2012 |access-date= 24 July 2012}}</ref>
* Road verge: [[Australia]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lgam.info/nature-strip|title=Nature Strip|work=The Local Government & Municipal Knowledge Base |access-date=22 March 2012}}</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=March 2018}}
* Roadside: Australia<ref name="pandora.nla.gov.au">{{cite web |url=http://www.indigoshire.vic.gov.au/residents/natural-resource-management/roadside-management/roadside-conservation-values/index.html |title=Roadside Conservation Values |work=Indigo Shire Council |publisher=[[Shire of Indigo|Indigo Shire]] Council |date=2007 |access-date=10 March 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20071108214700/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/79254/20071109-0847/www.indigoshire.vic.gov.au/residents/natural-resource-management/roadside-management/roadside-conservation-values/index.html |archive-date=8 November 2007 }}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
* Shoulder<ref>Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition, copyright 2007, page 1389</ref>
* Sidewalk lawn: [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]<ref name="dickstein">{{cite news |last=Dickstein |first=Corey |date=20 July 2009 |title=Sidewalk lawns now residents' responsibility |work=Savannah Morning News |publisher=Gatehouse Media, LLC |url=http://www.savannahnow.com/article/20090720/NEWS/307209897}}</ref>
* Sidewalk plot: [[Virginia]], [[Maryland]], [[Indiana]], [[Tennessee]]<ref name="dictionary-vol6"/>
* Sidewalk strip: [[California]], [[North Carolina]], [[Oregon]], [[Utah]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]]{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}
* Street lawn: Ohio<ref name="worthington">{{cite web|url=http://www.worthington.org/index.aspx?NID=299|title=Street Trees / Tree Lawn|work=Worthington |publisher=City of [[Worthington, Ohio]] |access-date= 31 August 2012}}</ref>
* Subway: [[Western New York]]{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}
* Swale: [[South Florida metropolitan area|South Florida]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ci.ftlaud.fl.us/life/urban_forestry/treeadopt.htm |title=Urban Forestry - Adopt-a-Tree Program |work=City of Fort Lauderdale |publisher=City of [[Fort Lauderdale, Florida]] |access-date=29 October 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308010601/http://ci.ftlaud.fl.us/life/urban_forestry/treeadopt.htm |archive-date=8 March 2012 }}</ref>
* Terrace: [[Great Lakes region (North America)|U.S. Great Lakes region]], [[Missouri]]<ref name="dictionary-vol6"/>
* Tree bank: The [[Fox Valley (Illinois)|Fox River Valley]] including [[Elgin, Illinois]].<ref>{{cite web |title= An Ordinance Regulating Tree Bank Parking (1976)|url=https://lf-portal.cityofelgin.net/WebLink/DocView.aspx?id=72104&dbid=0&repo=Elgin-Public&cr=1|access-date=2024-12-08}} It states that "'Tree bank' means that area between the curb, the extended curb or lateral roadway line and the property line." Nearby localities with similar references include St. Charles, Geneva, East Dundee, West Dundee, Carpentersville and Algonquin. </ref>
* Tree belt: [[Massachusetts]]<ref name="dictionary-vol6"/>
* Tree box: [[Washington, DC]]<ref>{{cite web |title=More Green Services {{!}} DC |url=https://dc.gov/service/more-green-services |website=dc.gov}}</ref>
* Tree lawn or treelawn: Ohio, Indiana, New York, and elsewhere<ref name="dictionary-vol6"/><ref name="WebsterWorld" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.buffalony.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1845/City-of-Buffalo-Street-Tree-Planting-Guidelines-PDF |title=City Of Buffalo Street Tree Planting Guidelines |work=City Of Buffalo |publisher= City of [[Buffalo, NY]]| access-date=19 April 2021}}</ref>
* Verge: [[UK]],<ref name=BBC-verges /> [[New Zealand]], [[South Africa]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://openbylaws.org.za/|title=Open By-laws South Africa|website=Open By-laws South Africa|access-date=2020-04-29}}</ref>  Western Australia<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/verge|title=Verge|access-date= 7 July 2010 |work=Merriam-Webster Dictionary |publisher=Merriam-Webster, Incorporated}}</ref><ref name="WebsterWorld"/>
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==See also==
{{Portal|Architecture|Gardening}}
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* [[:Category:Environmental conservation]]
* [[Central reservation]]
* [[Roadside conservation]]
* [[Shoulder (road)]]
* [[Urban forestry]]
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==References==
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==External links==
{{Wiktionary}}
* [http://www.fcgov.com/horticulture/infernogarden.php Parkway] with [[xeriscape|xeric garden]] photographs
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090221085936/http://www.mrexcel.com/devilstrip.html Devil Strips] – term's use and lore

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