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n.
  1. A rocky area in which plants particularly adapted to such terrain are cultivated.
  2. A garden in which rocks are arranged and plants cultivated in a carefully designed, decorative scheme. Also called rockery.

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Columbia Encyclopedia: rock garden
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rock garden, garden planned around natural rock formations or rocks artificially arranged to simulate natural (often mountainous) conditions. The concept of rock gardens is believed to have been introduced from China and Japan into the Western world in the 17th cent.; they have since gained wide popularity as an ideal method for the cultivation of mountain flora and for beautifying hilly, stony, or other awkward terrain. Rock plants usually have long roots that enable them to obtain moisture even when the surface is hot and dry. Low plants requiring well-drained conditions are suited to rock gardens: besides alpine plants, these include stonecrops and species of columbine, phlox, bluebell, and rockrose.

Bibliography

See E. B. Anderson, Rock Gardens (1964), and H. L. Foster, Rock Gardening (1968).

Poker Guide: Rock Garden
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This refers to a poker table full of tight players, with little or no action.

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Gardener's Dictionary: rock garden
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A landscape created with rocks and alpine plants (small plants native to mountainous regions).

 
 

 

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Gardener's Dictionary. Taylor's Dictionary for Gardeners, by Frances Tenenbaum. Copyright © 1997 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more