rockery

noun

rock·ery ˈrä-k(ə-)rē

plural rockeries

chiefly British

: rock garden

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Excellent groundcover or rockery plant. —

Dennis Peck, oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2022 Sir Charles Isham gets credit for bringing the dwarves into Britain and out into the garden, importing a number of them from Germany in the 1840s to decorate his massive rockery garden at Lamport Hall, his estate in Northamptonshire. —

Nevin Martell, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023 His wife, Phyllis, designed a pond that shines in their backyard among rockery, sunflowers, corn fields and an old Chevy truck. —

Catherine M. Allchin, The Seattle Times, 23 Oct. 2018 There's a lot of rockery, there are plants indoors growing out of the corner. —

Tom Philip, GQ, 1 June 2018 His guitarist sibling Jake has clearly studied Jimmy Page’s locomotive riffs, and the song’s vaguely medieval imagery resembles Zep’s Middle Earth rockery. —

Billboard Staff, Billboard, 13 Dec. 2017 Yamasaki installed the rockery and bonsai plants that over the years have become overgrown. —

Lynn Thompson, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2017 Yu Garden Your fantasy of old China: five acres of pavilions, koi ponds, plum blossoms, rockeries, and dragon walls. —

Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 14 July 2017 Because there are few plants with this foliage color, Sedum nussbaumerianum is prized for use in dish gardens and rockeries where bright colors are desired without having to wait for flowers to emerge. —

Brian Kemble, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2017 See More

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