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

Word History and Origins

Origin of rock garden¹

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

Biking helped me appreciate the little victories of navigating a rock garden or clearing a jump.

From Outside Online

Everything from sand pits and stream crossings to rock gardens and deep ruts are all part of the adventure.

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You can apply that same principle to rock gardens and hills.

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The Trail 429 encourages the rider to hit little hip jumps alongside the trail, manual over rollers, and gap roots and small rock gardens.

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This setting excelled on tighter, more technical trail, with the steeper headtube angle catering to lower-speed handling, while the higher bottom bracket provided more pedal clearance through rock gardens.

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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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