noun
definition
A section of a garden made from decorative rocks and alpine plants.
definition
A natural area where many seals breed.
Examples of rockery in a Sentence
Well adapted for carpeting the border or rockery.
In the gardens you will find one the finest limestone rockery 's which contains one of the largest fern collections in Britain.
We have planted a large woodland rockery around its base where the hellebores have run quite wild, says the current owner.
I thought I could put rockery stones in the shape of a cross with double lines about 10 apart.
This leads to a parking area for two vehicles with an attractive rockery garden area.
Alpine plant - a term used loosely to describe rockery plants.
To the front ther is a paved garden with rockery area.
To the opposite side of the patio is a raised rockery bed again with a dwarf retaining wall.
The ' Brittany ' sage still has flowers while the Erica December Red is now in good flower on the rockery bank.
Few figures were more prominent in this renaissance than Reginald Farrer, the man who put a rockery in every back garden.
D. cashmerianum is well suited for the border or for a large rockery; in either case perfect drainage is essential, and this is best attained in rock garden culture.
It flowers annually on the rockery at Kew.
Many of the little alpines may be brought into the front line planted between suitable pieces of stone, or they may be relegated to a particular spot, and placed on an artificial rockery.
Geum belong to still another group, and are valuable alike on border and rockery.
Imagine having to build a rockery with pieces that weigh several tons each.
The front of the cottage is south facing and has a rockery with Patio and garden furniture.
A brick path leads past a small rockery to the back service yard which is mainly crazy paved.
We have planted a large woodland rockery around its base where the hellebores have run quite wild, " says the current owner.
Herbaceous borders, terraced garden, heather beds, water garden and new rockery.
A man breaking rocks for his own garden rockery can find it very stress- releasing.