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Rockery (other)
A rockery or rock garden is an element of grounds design. Rockery may also refer to: * The Rockery, Easton, Massachusetts, USA; a Memorial Cairn created by Frederick Law Olmsted * The Grand Rockery (), a rock garden located in Shanghai, China's Yu Garden * The Rockery, a hall located in Hong Kong's Nan Lian Garden * The Rockeries, a rock garden with multiton piled rocks in Derbyshire, England, UK, at the Chatsworth House * The Rockery, a rock garden located in Preston Park, Brighton * Rockery Cottage, a Scottish listed building; see List of listed buildings in Dirleton, East Lothian See also * * * * * Rookery (other) * Rock garden (other) * Rocker (other) * Rockies (other) The Rockies can mean the following: * Rocky Mountains, a North American mountain range * Canadian Rockies, a North American mountain range in Canada * Colorado Rockies, a Colorado Major League baseball team * Colorado Rockies (NHL), a former NHL hoc ... * Rocky ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockery
A rock garden, also known as a rockery and formerly as a rockwork, is a garden, or more often a part of a garden, with a landscaping framework of rocks, stones, and gravel, with planting appropriate to this setting. Usually these are small Alpine plants that need relatively little soil or water. Western rock gardens are often divided into alpine gardens, scree gardens on looser, smaller stones, and other rock gardens. Some rock gardens are planted around natural outcrops of rock, perhaps with some artificial landscaping, but most are entirely artificial, with both rocks and plants brought in. Some 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rockery
The Rockery, also known as the Memorial Cairn, is an unusual war memorial designed by the noted American landscaper Frederick Law Olmsted. It is located at the center of North Easton Center in Easton, Massachusetts, where it forms the focal point for two adjacent H. H. Richardson buildings with their own Olmsted landscapes. The Rockery was created in 1882 as a memorial for North Easton's citizens lost in the American Civil War, a public area, and a carriage promenade with views of North Easton. It consists of boulders heaped into a long, asymmetric mound across a rustic archway that echoes those of H. H. Richardson's nearby Oakes Ames Memorial Hall Oakes Ames Memorial Hall is a historic hall designed by noted American architect H. H. Richardson, with landscaping by Frederick Law Olmsted. It is located on Main Street in the village of North Easton in Easton, Massachusetts, immediately adjace .... In April 1882 Olmsted wrote to Oakes Angier Ames that such cairns were of monume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yu Garden
Yu Garden or Yuyuan Garden (, Shanghainese ''Yuyoe'' , lit. ''Garden of Happiness'') is an extensive Chinese garden located beside the City God Temple in the northeast of the Old City of Shanghai at Huangpu District, Shanghai. It abuts the Yuyuan Tourist Mart, the Huxinting Teahouse and the Yu Garden Bazaar. This garden is accessible from the Shanghai Metro's Line 10 and Line 14 Yuyuan Garden station. A centerpiece is the Exquisite Jade Rock () a porous 3.3-m, 5-ton boulder. Rumours about its origin include the story that it was meant for the Huizong Emperor (Northern Song Dynasty from 1100 to 1126 AD) at the imperial garden in Bianjing, but was salvaged from the Huangpu River after the boat carrying it had sunk. History Yu Garden was first built in 1559 during the Ming Dynasty by Pan Yunduan as a comfort for his father, the minister Pan En, in his old age. Pan Yunduan began the project after failing one of the imperial exams, but his appointment as governor of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nan Lian Garden
The Nan Lian Garden () is a Chinese Classical Garden in Diamond Hill, Hong Kong near Diamond Hill station. The garden has an area of . It is designed in the Tang Dynasty-style with hills, water features, trees, rocks and wooden structures. The garden was a joint project of the Chi Lin Nunnery and the Hong Kong Government The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, commonly known as the Hong Kong Government or HKSAR Government, refers to the Executive (government), executive authorities of Hong Kong Special administrative regions of China, .... It opened to the public on 14 November 2006. The garden is open daily from 7am to 9pm. Gallery Image:Hong_Kong_-_Chi_Lin_Nunnery.jpg, Nan Lian Garden Pavilion of Absolute Perfection File:Nan Lian Garden Lo Hang Shan 2010.jpg, Lo Hang Shan Image:Nan Lian Garden, Blue Pond (Hong Kong).jpg, Blue Pond File:Nan Lian Garden The Rockery 2010.jpg, The Rockery File:Chinese Timber Architecture Gallery interior 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chatsworth House
Chatsworth House is a stately home in the Derbyshire Dales, north-east of Bakewell and west of Chesterfield, England. The seat of the Duke of Devonshire, it has belonged to the Cavendish family since 1549. It stands on the east bank of the River Derwent, across from hills between the Derwent and Wye valleys, amid parkland backed by wooded hills that rise to heather moorland. The house holds major collections of paintings, furniture, Old Master drawings, neoclassical sculptures and books. Chosen several times as Britain's favourite country house, it is a Grade I listed property from the 17th century, altered in the 18th and 19th centuries. In 2011–2012 it underwent a £14-million restoration. The owner is the Chatsworth House Trust, an independent charitable foundation, on behalf of the Cavendish family. History 11th–16th centuries The name 'Chatsworth' is a corruption of ''Chetel's-worth'', meaning "the Court of Chetel". In the reign of Edward the Confessor, a man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preston Park, Brighton
Preston Park is a park near Preston Village in the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England. It is located in Preston Park ward to the north of the centre of Brighton, and served by the nearby Preston Park railway station. Preston Park is also one of the wards of Brighton and Hove City Council. The population at the 2011 census was 14,911. Overview It is one of Brighton's largest parks, with of lawns, formal borders and rose gardens, bowling greens, tennis courts and a small pond. It was bought in 1883 by Brighton Corporation (then Brighton's local council) from Mr William Bennett-Stanford who owned the Preston Manor estate and had begun to develop the park as enclosed pleasure grounds. The costs of the purchase (£50,000) and initial layout (£22,868) were funded with a bequest of £70,000 from a local bookmaker, William Edmund Davies in 1879. The park was formally declared open on 8 November 1884. The Brighton and County Polo Club, started by Lt. Col. Robert McKe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Listed Buildings In Dirleton, East Lothian
This is a list of listed buildings in the parish of Dirleton, in East Lothian, Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to th .... List Key See also * List of listed buildings in East Lothian Notes References * All entries, addresses and coordinates are based on data froHistoric Scotland This data falls under thOpen Government Licence {{Reflist Dirleton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rookery (other)
A rookery is a colony of breeding birds and some marine mammals. Rookery may also refer to: * Rookery (slum), a term for a city slum, building, or ghetto frequented by poor people, criminals and prostitutes * Rookery Building, a historic landmark located in the Loop neighborhood of Chicago * Rookery Hall, an Elizabethan-style mansion located near the village of Worleston, Cheshire * Rookery Hill, a football stadium in Thurrock, Essex * Rookery Islands, Holme Bay, Mac.Robertson Land, Antarctica * Rookery Lake, Vestfold Hills, Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica * Rookery Mound, an archaeological site near Everglades City, Florida * Rookery railway station, a former railway station in Rainford, Lancashire, England * Rookery, an album by Giant Rooks * The Rookery, Nantwich, a Georgian townhouse in Nantwich, Cheshire * The Rookery, Stoke-on-Trent * The Rookery, Tattenhall, a house in Tattenhall, Cheshire See also * * * * Rockery (other) * Rook (other) Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Garden (other)
A rock garden is a type of garden that features extensive use of rocks or stones, along with plants native to rocky or alpine environments. Rock garden may also refer to: * Alpine garden, a domestic or botanical garden specialising in the collection and cultivation of alpine plants growing naturally at high altitudes around the world * An area of exposed rocks on a wilderness watercourse, such as the Back River * Japanese rock garden, also called a zen garden, creates a miniature stylized landscape * Rock Garden of Chandigarh, India, a sculpture garden * Rock Garden, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India, a road-side picnic ground around a natural waterfall * ''Rock Garden'' (album), a 2006 album by Ty Tabor * Rock Garden, a music venue located in Covent Garden, London during the late 1970s and 1980s See also * * * Rock the Garden, an annual summer music festival in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US * Rockery (other) A rockery or rock garden is an element of grounds design. R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rocker (other)
Rocker or rockers may refer to: Places *Rocker, Montana, a neighborhood in Butte, Montana, United States People *Rocker, a British drummer, formerly of The Flatmates * Fermin Rocker (1907–2004), painter and illustrator *John Rocker (born 1974), American Major League Baseball pitcher *Lee Rocker (born 1961), stage name of American rockabilly musician Leon Drucker *Rudolf Rocker (1873–1958), German writer, historian and prominent anarchist *Tracy Rocker (born 1966), American college football coach and former player Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Rocker'' (1972 film), a 1972 German film * ''Rockers'' (1978 film), a 1978 Jamaican film * ''Rockers'' (2003 film), a 2003 Japanese film * ''The Rocker'' (film), a 2008 American film Music Groups *The Rockers (band), a Japanese punk rock band *Barbie and the Rockers (branded in Europe as Barbie and the Rock Stars), a doll line made by Mattel * Bombay Rockers, a Danish/Indian band *Dolly Rockers, an English pop group * F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockies (other)
The Rockies can mean the following: * Rocky Mountains, a North American mountain range * Canadian Rockies, a North American mountain range in Canada * Colorado Rockies, a Colorado Major League baseball team * Colorado Rockies (NHL), a former NHL hockey team that became the New Jersey Devils * The Rockies, Cork, Ireland, the nickname of Blackrock National Hurling Club, an historic sports team in Cork, Ireland * Rockies Express Pipeline, a natural gas pipeline from Rocky Mountains to Ohio * Little Rockies is a reference to the Little Rocky Mountains in Montana *North American Cordillera, the entire set of mountain ranges on the west coast of North America. See also * Rocky Mountain (other) * Rock (other) * Rocky (other) * Rockey (other) Rockey is a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Rockey Felker (born 1953), former quarterback, head football coach, currently director of player personnel for Mississippi S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rocky (other)
''Rocky'' is a 1976 film starring Sylvester Stallone. Rocky may also refer to: Computing * Rocky Linux, a Linux distribution Films * ''Rocky'' (franchise), an American film franchise that debuted with the film ''Rocky'' in 1976 ** ''Rocky Balboa'' (film), the sixth film in the series from 2006 * ''Rocky'' (1948 film), an American film starring Roddy McDowall * ''Rocky'' (1981 film), an Indian Bollywood film starring Sanjay Dutt * ''Rocky'' (2006 Hindi film), an Indian Bollywood action film * ''Rocky'' (2008 film), an Indian Kannada-language film * ''Rocky'' (2013 film), an Indian Bengali-language film * ''Rocky'' (2021 film), an Indian Tamil-language film People * ASAP Rocky, American rapper * Rocky (nickname) * Rocky (singer), South Korean singer, rapper and member of boy group Astro * Rocky Dellesara, Canadian professional wrestler from NWA: All-Star Wrestling * Rocky Elsom, Australian rugby player * Rocky Fielding, British former professional boxer * Roc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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