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Rockery

A garden in which rocks are arranged and plants cultivated in a carefully designed, decorative scheme. Also called rock garden.

Some rock gardens are designed and built to look like natural outcrops of bedrock.

Stones are aligned to suggest a bedding plane and plants are often used to conceal the joints between the stones.

This type of rockery was popular in Victorian times, often designed and built by professional landscape architects.

The same approach is sometimes used in modern campus or commercial landscaping,

but can also be applied in smaller private gardens.

The usual form of a rockery is a pile of rocks, large and small, esthetically arranged,

and with small gaps between, where the plants will be rooted. Some rockerys incorporate bonsai.