Making a Rock Garden

by Henry Sherman Adams

This vintage book contains a classic guide to building and maintaining beautiful rock gardens in both small and large spaces, as well as planting and propagating of a variety of suitable plants and shrubs. "Making A Rock Garden" will be of considerable utility to those wishing to create a interesting rocketries or incorporate new plants into existing rock gardens. Contents "Selection of a Site", "Construction of Rockeries", "Aspect and Position", "Materials for Rockeries", "Principles of Rockery Building", "General Construction", "Rock Gardens in Miniature", "The Simple Rockery", "Rock-Studded Banks", "Culture and Management", "Suitable Soils for Alpines", etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on the history of gardening.

54 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1912

About the author

Henry Sherman Adams (1864–1948) was elected to the American Alpine Club in 1909

Reviews

[Amanda Butler]

I have rated this book five stars not because of any literary merit; but rather, the thorough detail merged with just the right amount of dry sass. The recording is only 42 minutes in length, so it's perfect for a commute. The work contains beautiful gems of phraseology that allow the reader (or listener) to glimpse at the correspondence of 1912. I now know the basics of the art of making a proper rock garden, and not a "rockery."

"Shun artificial rocks like the plague."

"Planting is not the end, it is only the beginning of planting."

"Certain plants, like certain friends, you enjoy having for a visit but do not care to see remain forever and a day."