NOUN
- any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small rose-like yellow or white or reddish flowers
- small shrubs of scrub and dry woodland regions of southern Europe and North Africa; grown for their showy flowers and soft often downy and aromatic evergreen foliage
How To Use rock rose In A Sentence
- As we chugged along the vivid green Wuyang River towards Dragon King Gorge, thickly forested crags and pinnacles of rock rose high above.
- As the sun ducks behind a cloud to the west, the air cools a few degrees and a wind fills the trees, holm-oaks and mulberries, and the grasses - wild thyme, lavender, rock rose and rice straw.
- Two groups of small shrubs that like such conditions are the rock roses - Cistus and Helianthemum.
- Sprawling mats of rock roses (helianthemum) need the lank flower stems snipped away in handfuls, with secateurs. Times, Sunday Times
- The garden designer Gertrude Jekyll was a great fan and favoured naturalistic planting companions such as heaths Erica and rock roses Cistus.
- The caterpillar of the Argus Butterfly feeds almost exclusively on the leaves of the rock rose.
- The sky is cloudless; the waves tumble beneath me; the warm southern wind carries scents of thyme and rock rose. Times, Sunday Times
- Everyone loves little trailing rock roses (helianthemum), in paving or spilling over walls. Times, Sunday Times
- Notes from Luckyscent: cedar, teak, sandalwood from Mysore, Sri Lankan pepper, elemi and cardamom, musk, rock rose and benzoin. Archive 2008-10-01
- The sky is cloudless; the waves tumble beneath me; the warm southern wind carries scents of thyme and rock rose. Times, Sunday Times
