rockery
rockery
Definition
rock·ery (räk′ər ē)
noun pl. rockeries -·er·ies
Chiefly Brit. rock garden
rockery
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- build: Imagine having to build a rockery with pieces that weigh several tons each.
- have: The front of the cottage is south facing and has a rockery with Patio and garden furniture.
Adjective modifier
- small: A brick path leads past a small rockery to the back service yard which is mainly crazy paved.
- large: We have planted a large woodland rockery around its base where the hellebores have run quite wild, " says the current owner.
- new: Herbaceous borders, terraced garden, heather beds, water garden and new rockery.
Modifies a noun
- stone: I thought I could put rockery stones in the shape of a cross with double lines about 10 " apart.
- garden: This leads to a parking area for two vehicles with an attractive rockery garden area.
- plant: Alpine plant - a term used loosely to describe rockery plants.
- area: To the front ther is a paved garden with rockery area.
- bed: To the opposite side of the patio is a raised rockery bed again with a dwarf retaining wall.
- bank: The ' Brittany ' sage still has flowers while the Erica December Red is now in good flower on the rockery bank.
Noun used with modifier
- garden: A man breaking rocks for his own garden rockery can find it very stress- releasing.
- limestone: In the gardens you will find one the finest limestone rockery 's which contains one of the largest fern collections in Britain.
Preposition: in
- garden: Few figures were more prominent in this renaissance than Reginald Farrer, the man who put a rockery in every back garden.
Preposition: with
- piece: Imagine having to build a rockery with pieces that weigh several tons each.
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