Showy rockwork or front row border plants of easy culture in any light soil; the plants should be frequently renewed from cuttings.
It is of evergreen habit, and requires a warm position on the rockwork and well-drained sandy soil; or a duplicate should be sheltered during winter in a cold, dry frame.
Others suitable for front lines or rockwork are A.
Dwarf close-growing evergreen cruciferous plants, adapted forrockwork and the front part of the flower border, and of the easiest culture.
Art) (a) Artificial rockwork made of rough stones and cement, as for gardens.
Defn: Artificial and ornamentalrockwork in imitation of a grotto.
Wherever rockwork or any picturesque arrangement is attempted in any of these structures; no nobler plant can be selected for its embellishment.
An isolated position, or one near the margin of an irregular shrubbery, fernery, or rough rockwork by the side of a wood walk, will best suit it.
The rockworkstood firm, the ends of the timbers had not moved, and only a few small heaps of gravel had fallen from the road-bed.
The front of the engine got larger, and Festing fixed his eyes upon the rockwork he had built among the piles.
They had cut a gap in the cone, and part of the rockworkwas exposed nearly to the bottom.
The weakened frame had been replaced, but others needed strengthening and the rockwork must be built up among the timbers.
The gaps between the frames would be faced with rockwork and then filled with rubble in order to make a bed for the rails on top.
In an hour or two the rails were up and they began to pull down the rockwork that faced the bank.
If the frame came down with the rockwork filling, it might start the rest and shake some length of road.
You're what you call practical, and your mind runs upon the number of yards of rockwork you can put up in a day or the logs you can cut.
Moreover, the Mason-bee covers her mass of cells with a thick layer of cement, which conceals the original rockwork edifice.
I have no other information about the integral diet of this Wasp, whom I have neglected somewhat, preferring to study her cousin, the builder of rockwork domes.
Around two sides of the little lake is a rockwork wall, and across one end, where the pond narrows, is a picturesque stone bridge of single span.
Arcticus, an excellent rockwork plant from Northern Europe, with very pleasant fruit, but difficult to establish; R.
For rockwork planting it is one of the most valuable species, growing freely and producing its showy flowers in abundance.
This is a good rockwork plant, and being of neat habit, with small purplish leaves, is well worthy of cultivation.
It is a capital wind screen, and may be used to advantage on the exposed side of rockwork or flower beds, or as an ornamental shrub by the pond or lake side.
For planting on the rockwork or in the front line of the shrubbery, this is an invaluable shrub, and soon forms a neat and pretty specimen.
In so far as beauty of fruit is concerned, this Rose has certainly no rival, and whether for the rockwork or open border it must be classed amongst the most useful and beautiful of hardy shrubs.
It is quite hardy, and seen to best advantage when allowed to run over large rockwork and tree stumps in partial shade.
For trailing over tree-stumps or rockwork this pretty evergreen shrub has a distinctive value, the bright green leaves and showy deep blue flowers rendering it both conspicuous and ornamental.
They are very desirable plants, either for bed formation, for rockwork ornamentation, or for planting around the shrubbery margins.
In a crevice, overhung by a big stone, but where the rockwork is so constructed that plenty of moisture is naturally received, a specimen has done very well indeed, besides keeping its foliage dry and perfect.
It has never failed to do well with me in any situation that was fully exposed; it flowers freely in a light dry bed, but on rockwork it is most at home.
Where there are old walls or rockwork it should be introduced.
I scarcely need add that for more open situations, as rockwork and borders, it is in every way suitable.
Rockwork or raised beds of sandy loam suits it to perfection, provided the aspect is sunny.
It may be planted on rockwork where it will not get the mid-day sun.
On rockwork this subject may be planted with considerable effect.
My advice is, therefore, to pull to pieces any case infested with insects, to burn all fittings not absolutely valuable, and to drench with turpentine all specimens, together with all the rockwork and fittings desired to be retained.
For certain objects a great advantage is obtained by making up the rockwork on a false bottom and slipping it, ready finished, into the case.
I so recognised all these facts in the treatment of the rockwork in the Leicester Museum, that I determined to use paper only, treating it by an old method, artistically elaborated.
Gray also is the rockworkoutlining the small squares or lozenges, where big red, lavender, and pink peonies flourish.
A trench dug by the English explorers at the north-eastern angle B L K proved that at this point, on the contrary, the artificial rockwork of the temple basement must have reached the colossal height of 123 feet.
The central crest was therefore surrounded by an immense quadrangular rockwork bounded by Cyclopean walls of the height of the truncated summit.
The use of slate at the ends is to enable us to affix rockwork or carry across a rude arch; the cement used in constructing rockwork does not adhere to glass.
But if rockwork is not thought desirable the slate ends may be dispensed with, and the vessel may be composed wholly of glass, except the bottom, which may be of slate or wood.
The most important matter in the construction of rockwork is to give it a natural, rugged appearance, and to avoid loading the tank with superfluous weight.
Indeed, the rockwork may be wholly composed of such cement, especially if it is to have the form of an arch.
A number of hardy species of this are excellent plants forrockwork and edging.
When the plants have outgrown their usefulness as house plants, they are still valuable as porch decorations, for plunging in rockwork or about rustic nooks.
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