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Definition of Rock garden
1. Noun. A garden featuring rocks; usually alpine plants.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rock Garden
Literary usage of Rock garden
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"While shelters of this character are of value about the outer limits of a
rock-garden, they can hardly be used for separating its smaller compartments. ..."
2. The Shakespeare Garden by Esther Singleton (1922)
"XX The Rock-Garden It is well to build a little unostentatious rock- garden in
some appropriate spot where a few flowers, which you may not want in the beds ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1909)
"There is nothing that so much enhances the beauty of a rock garden as suitable
shrubs rightly ... So placed they make a rock garden look like a cemetery. ..."
4. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1907)
"Little need be done beyond planting healthy young plants in a moist sandy border
or rock- garden. I have often seen it thriving where the air was pure and ..."
5. Garden Planning by William Snow Rogers (1911)
"CHAPTER XI THE rock garden THERE is no feature in the modern small garden so ...
A rock garden need not be large to be interesting, but it must be properly ..."
6. How to Make a Flower Garden: A Manual of Practical Information and Suggestions by Wilhelm Miller (1903)
"A well-constructed and tastefully arranged rock garden can be made one of the
most interesting features of a country home. Meaningless mounds of stones too ..."
7. The Gentleman's House: Or, How to Plan English Residences, from the by Robert Kerr (1865)
"Fernery and Rock- Garden. THERE are several modes in common use for the formation
of the FLOWER-GARDEN. One is to cut out a number of LAWN-BEDS along the ..."
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