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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).
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Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 June 2024
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
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Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 June 2024
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
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“Rockery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rockery. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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