We do not have a rock garden per se. However, having been part of various rock garden societies for many years, we have accumulated some rock garden plants (and killed many more). Here are some of the smaller plants that have bloomed for us this spring. Many of them were grown from seed.
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| Semiaquilegia ecalcarata |
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| Ramonda myconi |
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| Auricula |
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| A species tulip whose name has long been forgotten |
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| Iberis sempervirens 'Pink Ice' |
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| A variety of Aquilegia flabellata |
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| Papaver Atlanticum |
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| Dianthus alpinus |
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| The green creeper is rupturewort Herniaria Glabra |
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| Gypsophila repens ‘Filou Rose’ |
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| Anemone sylvestris |
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| Azorella trifurcata 'Nana' (a plant that feels as if it were made of plastic). |
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| Aethionema grandiflora |
I love the semiaquilegia. It's such fun and (mostly!) very satisfying growing from seed.
ReplyDeleteGrowing from seed seems more "natural". It also produces surprises as you often do not get exactly what you were expecting.
DeleteI love all the rock garden plants . I 've been meaning to try that poppy from seed, maybe next year .
ReplyDeleteIt grows as a rosette flat on the ground. I am telling you this because not knowing what it looked like, I pulled out a few of them before I realized they were not a weed!
DeleteThese plants look so delicate but are clearly tough characters to establish themselves between rocks and in gravel. Sadly, I suspect none could survive summer in southern California.
ReplyDeleteThey are at the same time tough and demanding. If they get the conditions they want, they can become weed!
DeleteI wish I could grow all the marvelous succulent you can grow in California.
Takes me back to when I used to concentrate on alpines Alain, with your alkaline soil, open aspect and winter snow covering I am sure many of them feel at home.
ReplyDeleteI expect you are right. They tend to die very soon or to do a bit too well.
DeleteI really like alpine plants. Is the ramonda easy to grow?
ReplyDeleteThe short answer is no but I have seen them self seed profusely growing directly on limestone.
DeleteRock gardens take a tremendous amount of effort . You've done it.
ReplyDeleteThank you Red. However I think there is as much luck as efforts.
DeleteAlain what gorgeous little gems you have! I love seeing rock gardens and the variety of little plants that live there .. I am beginning to try and stay on the smaller side of plants and these look amazing.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!
Joy : )
Thank you. There are rock garden plants for any growing conditions.
DeleteWhat gorgeous plants.I have that semiaquilegea. What a treasure it is, so dainty. I had a ramona groing on a piece of rock for years but it died of neglect one dry summer. Lovely post.
ReplyDeleteRamonda is a curious plant isn't it? Usually not that easy but as I said above, I have seen it self seed with abandon in a limestone garden.
DeleteSome very appealing plants there. I never thought of Anemone sylvestris as a rock garden plant - I thought it wanted moist soil. Love the Ramonda and that species tulip.
ReplyDeleteYou have some beauties there. It looks like you have a rock garden. I really don't, although I have three clay pots with a collection of succulents. This is the first year they've really taken off. Your combinations of plants are so pleasant to the eye!
ReplyDeleteHello Alain, there are some gems in that collection of rock garden plants. I'm still not sure I could make a rock garden that would thrive in the wet weather and rich soil that we have so I will enjoy yours instead.
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