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  2. Rock garden - Wikipedia

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    The use of rocks as decorative and symbolic elements in gardens can be traced back at least 1,500 years in Chinese and Japanese gardens.In China, large scholar's rocks, preferably soft rocks such as limestone worn in river beds or waterfalls into fantastic shapes, were transported long distances to imperial and elite gardens.

  3. Japanese dry garden - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese dry garden (枯山水, karesansui) or Japanese rock garden, often called a Zen garden, is a distinctive style of Japanese garden. It creates a miniature stylized landscape through carefully composed arrangements of rocks, water features, moss, pruned trees and bushes, and uses gravel or sand that is raked to represent ripples in ...

  4. Hestercombe Gardens - Wikipedia

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    Hestercombe Gardens: View from the South Terrace; The Great Plat, the Great Pergola and the Taunton Valley in the background. Hestercombe Gardens is a garden complex situated on the grounds of Hestercombe House in the southwestern English county of Somerset. The entire garden complex comprises three individual gardens from different stylistic ...

  5. Rock Garden of Chandigarh - Wikipedia

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    The Rock Garden of Chandigarh is a sculpture garden in Chandigarh, India. It is also known as Nek Chand Saini's Rock Garden of Nathupur after its founder Nek Chand Saini, a government official who started building the garden secretly in his spare time in 1957. It has spread over an area of 40 acres (16 ha), and is completely built from ...

  6. List of decorative stones - Wikipedia

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    Natural stone is used as architectural stone (construction, flooring, cladding, counter tops, curbing, etc.) and as raw block and monument stone for the funerary trade. Natural stone is also used in custom stone engraving. The engraved stone can be either decorative or functional. Natural memorial stones are used as natural burial markers.

  7. Old Steine Gardens - Wikipedia

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    The memorial includes a large, shallow pool with a central fountain. At the north end of the pool is a colonnade of stone columns in a 'U'-shape, the second element of the monument. At the centre of the colonnade is a temple formed by a rectangular panel of stone, which fills the space between two of the columns, and a roof with a stone dome. [23]

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