rock garden

noun

|Updated on: 14 Aug 2018

Definition of rock garden

: a garden laid out among rocks or decorated with rocks and adapted for the growth of particular kinds of plants (such as alpines)

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The broad-roofed home features an exterior of wood, glass, and brick, with a covered stone pathway and rock garden with open skylights leading to the front door.

— lauren ro, Curbed, "Midcentury home in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonia community asks $1.6M," 15 June 2018
By late August the alpine plants that fill the rock garden will begin to turn colors, offering a late-summer splash of color.

— Anchorage Daily News, "July is a great time to visit the Alaska Botanical Garden," 11 July 2018
First open to the public in 1983, the space is crammed with herbs, plants, and one of Europe’s oldest rock gardens, built in part from pieces of Icelandic lava.

— patrick sisson, Curbed, "Secret gardens: A global tour of hidden urban oases," 12 June 2018
The landscape now features such treasures as a rock garden, a shade garden, perennial borders, a chaparral garden, a vegetable garden and more.

— adrian higgins, sacbee, "Fertilize your creative spirit with these gardening books," 8 June 2018
With native species fresh in your mind, hit the native plant garden to see a New York without foreign growth, then dip into the adjacent rock garden and learn how plants grow in the cracks in sidewalks.

— New York Times, "Things to Do in New York That Are Not the Governors Ball," 31 May 2018
Experience Ryoanji, a beautiful and tranquil fifteenth century rock garden laid out by Soami, the foremost master of this art.

— scott gilman, Town & Country, "How to Plan a Trip to Japan," 5 Oct. 2016
The apartments, spread over a half-dozen buildings in addition to the amenity building, are designed to fit into the landscaping, such as surrounding trees and a rock garden.

— ely portillo, charlotteobserver, "Here's how much it will cost you to live in these new Charlotte apartments | Charlotte Observer," 7 May 2018
Tendrils of the #MeToo movement are reaching into unexpected corners of the patriarchal rock garden of American society.

— ed kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, "‘#MeToo’ in the Pews: A Backlash to the Southern Baptist Patriarchy," 9 May 2018

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