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rock garden

noun

  1. a garden on rocky ground or among rocks, for the growing of alpine or other plants.
  2. a garden decorated with rocks, usually a wide variety of interestingly shaped, multicolored rocks, especially quartz.


rock garden

noun

  1. a garden featuring rocks or rockeries
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of rock garden1

First recorded in 1830–40
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Example Sentences

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.

There is a kind of rock-garden from which you must approach from that side.

At one point the lawn, trending gently upward, runs by grass paths into a rock-garden, planted mainly with dwarf shrubs.

The best thing now in the rock-garden is a patch of some twenty plants of Arnebia echioides, always happy in our poor, dry soil.

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