A
rock garden, also known as a
rockery or an
alpine garden, is a
small field or plot of ground designed to feature and emphasize a variety of
rocks, stones, and boulders.
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The standard layout for a rock garden consists of a pile of
aesthetically arranged rocks in different sizes, with small gaps between
in which plants are rooted. Typically, plants found in rock gardens are
small and do not grow larger than 1 meter in height,
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though small trees and shrubs up to 6 meters may be used to create a
shaded area for a woodland rock garden. If used, they are often grown in
troughs or low to the ground
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to avoid obscuring the eponymous rocks. The plants found in rock
gardens are usually species that flourish in well-drained, poorly
irrigated
soil.
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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 said stones.
This type of rockery was popular in Victorian times and usually created
by professional
landscape architects. The same approach is sometimes used in commercial or modern-campus
landscaping but can also be applied in smaller private gardens.
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