Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. rockery
WordNet
n. a garden featuring rocks; usually alpine plants [syn: rockery]
Wikipedia
A rock garden, also known as a rockery or an alpine garden, is a small field or plot of ground designed to feature and emphasize a variety of rocks, stones, and boulders.
The standard layout for a rock garden consists of a pile of aesthetically arranged rocks in different sizes with small gaps between where plants are rooted. Typically, plants found in rock gardens are small and do not grow larger than 1 meter in height, though small trees and shrubs up to 6 meters may be used to create a shaded area for a woodland rock garden. If used, they are often grown in troughs or low to the ground to avoid obscuring the eponymous rocks. The plants found in rock gardens are usually species that flourish in well-drained, poorly irrigated soil.
Some rock gardens are designed and built to look like natural outcrops of bedrock. Stones are aligned to suggest a bedding plane, and plants are often used to conceal the joints between said stones. This type of rockery was popular in Victorian times and usually created by professional landscape architects. The same approach is sometimes used in commercial or modern-campus landscaping but can also be applied in smaller private gardens.
The Japanese rock garden, often referred to as a Zen garden, is a special kind of rock garden with water features, moss, pruned trees and bushes, and very few plants.
Rock gardens have become increasingly popular as landscape features in tropical countries such as Thailand. The combination of wet weather and heavy shade trees, along with the use of heavy plastic liners to stop unwanted plant growth, has made this type of arrangement ideal for both residential and commercial gardens due to its easier maintenance and drainage.
Rock Garden is a 2006 solo album by King's X guitarist Ty Tabor. All songs were written and recorded by Ty Tabor at Alien Beans studio in Katy, TX. between March 2005 and June 2006.
A rock garden is a type of garden that features extensive use of rocks or stones, along with plants native to rocky or alpine environments.
Rock garden may also refer to:
- Alpine garden
- Japanese rock garden, also called a zen garden, creates a miniature stylized landscape
- Rock Garden of Chandigarh, India, a sculpture garden
- Rock Garden, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India, a road-side picnic ground around a natural waterfall
- Rock Garden (album), a 2006 hard rock album
- Covent Garden#Economy (Rock Garden), a music venue located in Covent Garden in London, 1970s/1980s