Flowerbeds?

[David <dfrankiswork@netscape.net>]

Just something I want to clear up from the main list.

As an example of something hinted at in a few posts there, Susan 
McGee wrote:

> I imagine that Harry was lying on his back in the flower bed 
because he desperately did NOT want to be in the same house as the 
Dursleys...I had a relatively happy childhood, but there were still 
times I would sneak out on a warm night and lie in the grass 

The relevant passage is: "a teenage boy who was lying flat on his 
back in a flowerbed"

In my view of gardens, if you are in a flowerbed you can't be on 
grass.  You would be lying on soil or flowers.  Either way, it would 
be uncomfortable.

It's because of this that the combination of flowerbed, on his back, 
and nobody around is odd.

So, is this one of these mysterious UK/US differences?  Would 
Americans call lying on a lawn 'in a flowerbed' under some 
circumstances?

David