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rock garden
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.
rock garden
noun
- a garden featuring rocks or rockeries
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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.
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I skulked round to the back, got on the beach, and climbed a little way up towards the rock garden.
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There is a kind of rock-garden from which you must approach from that side.
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At one point the lawn, trending gently upward, runs by grass paths into a rock-garden, planted mainly with dwarf shrubs.
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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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