rockery

noun

rock·​ery ˈrä-k(ə-)rē 

plural rockeries

chiefly British

: rock garden

Examples of rockery in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Tackling a huge garden might take too long, but this hand rake is the ideal size for container gardens, terraces, balcony gardens that need more detailing (or zen gardens and rockeries, too). — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 June 2024

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

Word History

Etymology

rock entry 3 + -ery

First Known Use

1845, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for rockery

• crockery
• mockery