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stone broke

[stohn-brohk] / ˈstoʊnˈbroʊk /






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Finally, a couple of Northwest native broadleaf stonecrops furnish the garden with evergreen rosettes of succulent foliage.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 27, 2022

If you squint, these stonecrops look like barnacle-encrusted rocks.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 27, 2022

Other showy fall stonecrops include Sedum x ‘Mojave Jewels Ruby’, with deep purple foliage, and Sedum x ‘Thunderhead’, with tarnished bronze foliage.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 4, 2021

The grots and rocky walls were already starred with saxifrages and stonecrops.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

A single plant of one of the trailing stonecrops would fill it, perhaps, when a number of rosettes of the smaller kinds of house leek would be called for.

From Making A Rock Garden by Adams, H. S. (Henry Sherman)




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