rock-garden

The main building, with side galleries connecting the old and new structures around a rock-garden courtyard, has a red-tile roof and a roof garden that blend seamlessly into the village and its pastoral surroundings.

A Display of Lalique's Beauty Judy Fayard 2011

Around them the glittering silica stones of the rock-garden, crawling with the dry motley-colored Venus plants.

Wild Dreams of Reality, 5 2010

This place looked rather like an odd rock-garden, in fact, and not like anything natural at all.

If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993

They halted at the very edge of the "rock-garden," in a relatively smooth place, completely free of the purple trees.

If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993

To her right, as she peered with well-simulated interest at Anacyclus Depressus, Cotoneaster Frigida Prostate, Leontopodium Alpinum and the rest of the fifty-nine species which the rock-garden had on display, were palm trees and an Australian tree fern, while in the opposite direction was a group of northern pines.

My Bones Will Keep Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1977

Miss Marple did indeed call attention to some new and rare species she had acquired for her rock-garden but did so in an almost absentminded manner.

4.50 From Paddington Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 1959

I also went by narrow and vile-smelling streets to visit a celebrated leaning pagoda near Soochow, and on returning took the opportunity offered of inspecting with much interest a mandarin's rock-garden, purely Chinese and entirely different from Japanese similar retreats.

Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson

He remembered that in the summer the miniature rock-garden endued a mantle of simple flowers, and that sweet scents were borne into the room by every passing breeze.

The Orchard of Tears Sax Rohmer 1921

This interest continued itself into the making of a rock-garden in his Eastbourne home, where, in his spare hours, he proceeded to put into happy practice Candide's famous maxim, “Cultivons notre jardin,” and drew from this occupation the simile of the wild chalk down and the cultivated garden in his Romanes Lecture to illustrate the contrast between the cosmic process and the social organism.

Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard, 1860-1933 1920

The plop of a water-rat in the pond that occupied the rock-garden in the middle of the lawn brought him back to earth, and the Vicar's invitation to tea flashed across his mind.

A Prisoner in Fairyland Algernon Blackwood 1910