Rock garden plants

Rock garden Plants

	Crocus 'Flower Record' among winter flowering Erica carnea in purple and white (foreground), interplanted with rocks and tufts of Blue Fescue (Festuca glauca)

Primula veris and Muscari armeniacum, a contrasting spring couple.

	Geranium 'Ballerina' is a fine perennial for the rock garden with a mounding habit and a long blooming season.

Dianthus are very versatile in size and color. Many form beautiful mats of silvery foliage and the flowers are often sweetly fragrant.


Some of the brightest blues are found in the flowers of Gentiana species. Unfortunately most are not very long-lived in our climate due to our hot summers.

	A flowering carpet of Sedum 'Weihenstephaner Gold'. This seems to be the cleanest and most reliable Sedum for the rock garden.

Allium karataviense is one of many exotic looking ornamental onions.

	Sempervivum arachnoideum is a smaller version of the well-known "Hens and Chickens" and has little cob webs over its leaf rosettes. The flowers are rosy red.

Some of the smaller creeping thymes, like Thymus serphyllum 'Minus', are beatiful fo fill gaps between rocks. They are also very long lived. The variety 'Magic Carpet' is an excellent low groundcover.