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rock garden
noun
: a garden laid out among rocks or decorated with rocks and adapted for the growth of particular kinds of plants (such as alpines)
Examples of rock garden in a Sentence
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Highlights include Chinese, Japanese and First Nations gardens, as well as a rock garden arranged by geographic regions.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2024
In this spiritual moment, Zen Buddhism was born, inspiring the serene and eternal dry or rock gardens called karesansui.
—Paula Deitz, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2024
Additionally, Yerba Buena (clinopodium douglasii) is another creeping, mat-forming perennial that is great for the cooler climates towards the coast and Northwestern states, looking particularly gorgeous in rock gardens.
—Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 9 Mar. 2023
Anemones naturalize well under taller bulbs or in rock gardens.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 7 Sep. 2023
Having to pull our canoes through the rock garden directly downstream of the ramp also foreshadowed arduous navigation.
—Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 6 Aug. 2023
In grit crust, the stones provide the structure, but the microbes colonize them in a coherent sheet — like a thin layer of resin grouting together a rock garden.
—Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2023
Heat-tolerant and handsome in any landscape, these look particularly stunning when used in a rock garden or as a privacy hedge.
—By
sunset, Sunset Magazine, 14 Apr. 2023
Plant it in rock gardens or in the front of borders in full sun.
—Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 17 May 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1836, in the meaning defined above
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“Rock garden.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rock%20garden. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
Kids Definition
rock garden
noun
: a garden laid out among rocks or decorated with rocks
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