How to Use rock garden in a Sentence
rock garden
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Plant it in rock gardens or in the front of borders in full sun.
—Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 17 May 2023
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Now there’s a rock garden at the back and a statue of a woman holding a frog and the water comes out of the frog’s mouth.
—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 July 2019
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Gress replaced his yard with a rock garden decades ago.
—Leslie Nemo, Curbed, 30 Mar. 2018
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In its hushed evocation of water, the piece is a bit like a Zen rock garden.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2020
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Petting him from head to tail was like rubbing a rock garden.
—Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star, 8 July 2022
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Wild columbine is a fine choice for a gravelly slope, rock ledge, or rock garden.
—BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2022
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Behind and underneath the glass, there is a small, tidy rock garden.
—John Mariani, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
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Glory-of-the-snow, grape hyacinths, rock garden iris, snowdrops, and squills do grow from bulbs.
—Marty Ross, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Feb. 2021
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This plant is a great choice for a rock garden, foreground of a border, or massed under trees or shrubs.
—Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Dec. 2022
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But the ground-hugging dwarf iris, sometimes called the rock garden iris, is among the earliest bulbs to appear in spring.
—Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2021
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First open to the public in 1983, the space is crammed with herbs, plants, and one of Europe’s oldest rock gardens, built in part from pieces of Icelandic lava.
—Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 12 June 2018
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Penny has returned to the rock garden that was tended by her friend Fuzzy, which is still there among the dust and tumbleweeds.
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Feb. 2022
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The high price tag covers a Zen rock garden, small pond and seasonal flowers.
—New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021
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Use as a groundcover at the front of a water-wise border, rock garden, or even along a curbside strip.
—By sunset, Sunset Magazine, 14 Apr. 2023
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Picture a rock garden with tree pieces instead of boulders.
—Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 3 Nov. 2022
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His children were planning to welcome him home from the hospital with a rock garden.
—Omar Jimenez, CNN, 11 Nov. 2020
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Plant the small-leaved selections in rock gardens or in containers.
—Kris Wetherbee, Good Housekeeping, 7 Aug. 2018
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Stonecrop works well as a hearty rock garden plant and has excellent drought tolerance.
—Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine, 4 May 2022
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Two of her paintings frame scenes-within-scenes, including a Zen rock garden, inside a pair of hands.
—Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2022
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Plant them in walls, rock gardens and shallow containers.
—Debra Lee Baldwin, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
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The moss-like Corsican mint is an attractive creeper, good between paving stones or in the rock garden.
—The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 22 Aug. 2018
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By late August the alpine plants that fill the rock garden will begin to turn colors, offering a late-summer splash of color.
—Anchorage Daily News, 11 July 2018
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Drought resistant/drought tolerant plant, it was sold as a rock garden plant.
—Janet Carson, Arkansas Online, 27 June 2022
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Look for a bench and painted rock garden after passing Santa Ana Boulevard for the perfect rest spot.
—Matt Pawlik, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2022
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The broad-roofed home features an exterior of wood, glass, and brick, with a covered stone pathway and rock garden with open skylights leading to the front door.
—Lauren Ro, Curbed, 15 June 2018
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Amenities are geared toward the high end and will include studios for yoga, barre and spin classes, a pool, putting green, walking trail and rock garden.
—Ely Portillo, charlotteobserver, 2 Apr. 2018
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The front lawn at Merit Medical Systems, where Monday’s news conference was held, looks less like a lawn and more like a rock garden.
—Owen Tucker-Smith, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 June 2021
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Tall bearded irises are stunning in a mixed border and small bearded irises can be fun tucked into a rock garden.
—oregonlive, 7 May 2021
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Anemones naturalize well under taller bulbs or in rock gardens.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 7 Sep. 2023
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Having to pull our canoes through the rock garden directly downstream of the ramp also foreshadowed arduous navigation.
—Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 6 Aug. 2023
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