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I asked Goetz whether there is ever a time to just give up, like when a rockery is filled with weeds and needs to be rebuilt to correct the problem.

The garden sits at the top of a steep rockery with stairs leading to an entry arbor swagged with the sweetly fragrant pink blooms of that original ‘New Dawn’.

Since trapping restarted, stoats have been found making dens in attics, under kitchen floorboards, in garden rockeries, and in greater density than on the UK mainland.

For yes, in case you’ve been living under a giant rockery, George Eliot was a “her,” with several roles other than her nom de plume: daughter, sister, friend, wife, stepmother.

Pathways feature mature trees, native perennials, colorful annuals in situ, and a pond, rain garden, rockery and a waterwheel.