Nothing grew in the rockery except London pride and snails.
The nursery was dingy, because it was a basement room, and its windows looked out on a stone area with a rockery made of clinkers facing the windows.
To place a rockery on a sand bank in the burning sun is therefore entirely out of character.
A rockery is a part of the place in which plants are grown in pockets between rocks.
Right in the centre of the square room is a fountain playing, the spray falling down upon a charming little rockery in the middle of a stone basin.
On thisrockery dwelt ferns that loved moisture, and creeping saxifrages, with pretty flowerets of deepest crimson, but not a bit bigger than a bee's head.
A moment I hesitated, fearful that if I followed I should stumble or dislodge some of the lava blocks of which the rockery was composed.
The small grass-plat surrounding the rockery was brightly green.
He walked over to the tall French-windows and found himself once more gazing out on the garden-rockery with its oval lake, its silent fountain and its toy-boat that never sailed anywhere.
The most successful plan is that followed at Kew, where a collection of the hardier species is planted in a rockery composed of brick rubble and stones.
This sturdy species is a native of Mexico, and succeeds well if planted on a little rockery or raised mound in a warm house, where, properly treated, it branches freely, and forms a dense mass of circular joints.
Very well, Mr. William, if you will get some masons to do the rockery and fountain, I can answer for the rest; but I think I shall need a good many fresh plants.
I should put some rockery down the side here to hide the pipes, and in the centre we will have a fountain with water plants, a foot or two below the level of the floor, and a low bank of ferns round.
If you can do so, get your plants in little pots, and put them into your rockery or your wall on a showery spring day.
In a cold climate you would be careful to finish your planting early in November, but in the South and West of England you might still be busy with a new rockery or a new flower border.
The flowers of this little bulb are a most vivid sapphire blue, and you should certainly have some either on your rockery or in front of your border.
You could put clumps of them on your rockery or in front of your border, and plant Siberian Squills, winter Aconites, and Snowdrops near them.
It said that all you wanted for a rockery in a town or suburban garden was a cartload of stones or bricks dumped down in a corner.
Some of your Carnation seedlings are sure to be single, and they would look very pretty on a rockery or hanging from a wall or a window-sill.
It seemed to me the box was regular sticking out and showing, like your legs do under the sheets in bed, and I went and put all the earth I'd got out of my 'ole for the rockery slap on top of it.
I went and I finished that rockery next day, as though there wasn't a Snack in the world; cemented over the stones, I did, dabbed it green and everythink.
I have just seen the following hopeful advertisement: “Rockery Ornaments.
At the corner of the highway our lane ran to was a great iron gate, all about it towering trees, directly inside a mound of shrub-covered rockery that prevented anybody getting a peep further.
Once, when the gate was open and nobody about, I got a peep by sneaking round this rockery like a little thief.
It is easier to make mistakes in forming a rockerythan in any other garden scheme.
For instance, thatrockery arrangement of Pansy's might be exhibited as your idea of art work.
At the base of the rockerywere a large pink-lined conch-shell and several smaller shells.
The rockery was completed, and was a most imposing structure.
Let us climb up the rockery and sit on the garden wall," said Moppet.
He came up the rockery by degrees, breaking the ferns and shedding buttons right and left.
Yet somehow I felt that, just as I would rather see a sparrow at large than an eagle in captivity, so to be shown round that well-fashioned rockery was less entertaining than to show oneself round the most barren of the adjacent moors.
Did Eugenia ever come back, he wondered, or was the house to crumble as Miss Chris's rockeryhad done?
All the dear, familiar objects were draped by the darkness as by a curtain; the body of the sycamore assumed a spectral pallor, and the small rockery near by was as mysterious as a tomb.
At twelve o'clock ferntree and rockery were one smooth white mound--the snow covered the whole thing completely; not so much as a green tip the size of a pin's head stuck out anywhere.
Except in the case of a rockery only a year old, there is sure to be some part that wants to be worked afresh, and I find it convenient to do about a third of the space every year.
Beyond the boulder the rockery opened out around a little artificial cliff, upon the crest of which was perched a small summer-house.
He came to a rockery bordered with dense groves, an ideal place for an ambush.
Yet on a perfect stranger in a humid rockery she was wasting what had been meant for mankind at Lord's.
Towards these all the garden paths converge, and about their base is raised a bank of earth, upon which is heaped a rockery of large stones lately overgrown with ferns.
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