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rockery Definition

rock·ery (räkər 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.