rock garden

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noun

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.

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Also called rockery.

Origin of rock garden

First recorded in 1830–40

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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.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8|Various
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 Oppenheim
There is a kind of rock-garden from which you must approach from that side.
The Haunting of Low Fennel|Sax Rohmer
At one point the lawn, trending gently upward, runs by grass paths into a rock-garden, planted mainly with dwarf shrubs.
Wood and Garden|Gertrude Jekyll

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.
Wood and Garden|Gertrude Jekyll

British Dictionary definitions for rock garden

rock garden

noun

a garden featuring rocks or rockeries

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