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Rockery   Listen
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Rockery  n.  (Gardening) A mound formed of fragments of rock, earth, etc., and set with plants.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Rockery" Quotes from Famous Books



... began to wonder if I were any the worse for my last bottle, and decided to steady myself with coffee and brandy. In the Cafe de la Source, where I went for this restorative, the fountain was playing, and (what greatly surprised me) the mill and the various mechanical figures on the rockery appeared to have been freshly repaired and performed the most enchanting antics. The cafe was extraordinarily hot and bright, with every detail of a conspicuous clearness, from the faces of the guests ...
— The Wrecker • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

... specimen of its class, into a house for himself, entirely altering the character of its appearance, adding a lofty oriel and spacious windows with a new door and staircase, while some of the old stones were made to adorn a rockery in the garden. When he was abroad the elaborately contrived entrance for the defence of a square fifteenth-century keep with four square towers at the corners, very curious and complete, were entirely obliterated by a zealous mason. In my own parish ...
— Vanishing England • P. H. Ditchfield



Words linked to "Rockery" :   rock garden, garden



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