Over here a rockery is a bed, usually sloping, with rocks outcropping on it in a supposed imitation of natural rocks on a hillside, and with plants of the alpine persuasion in soil pockets between them.

At the last place, there was a Victorian period one at the back of the garden, no longer useful as it was overshadowed by lime trees, and one of my neighbours used some of the stone for what she called a rockery, which was lumps of stone scattered about on a flower bed, the stone including lumps of concrete and breezeblock...

Mine was made of rows of rocks put together to look like layers outcropping from the ground. she asked why I used so much stone, and I said it was because I was a geologist. It was also because my rockery was near the front of the property, and knowing the cost of stone in the garden centres, I wanted it to look as if it would be difficult to run off with.

A bedhead could also be called a headboard, the bit that sticks up behind the pillows, but would have been a part of the structure holding up the springy bit under the mattress, whereas a headboard could be just fixed to the wall.

I kept the soil level on the peach at the same level it was in the pot, and had the roots spread out well. If I had known it was going to lose contact with its compost, I'd have bought some mycorrhiza to put with it, but too late now.

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