rock garden
a garden on rocky ground or among rocks, for the growing of alpine or other plants.
a garden decorated with rocks, usually a wide variety of interestingly shaped, multicolored rocks, especially quartz.
Origin of rock garden
1- Also called rockery.
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How to use rock garden in a sentence
The species are easy to cultivate and well adapted for borders or the rock-garden.
I skulked round to the back, got on the beach, and climbed a little way up towards the rock garden.
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo | E. Phillips OppenheimThere is a kind of rock-garden from which you must approach from that side.
The Haunting of Low Fennel | Sax RohmerAt one point the lawn, trending gently upward, runs by grass paths into a rock-garden, planted mainly with dwarf shrubs.
Wood and Garden | Gertrude JekyllThe best thing now in the rock-garden is a patch of some twenty plants of Arnebia echioides, always happy in our poor, dry soil.
Wood and Garden | Gertrude Jekyll
British Dictionary definitions for rock garden
a garden featuring rocks or rockeries
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