Plants for Rock Walls and Gardens
These are the easiest plants for beginning rock gardeners to grow. If you become hooked on rock gardening as a hobby, you can graduate to an ecclectic assortment of speciality plants.
Plants for Rock Walls and Gardens
These are the easiest plants for beginning rock gardeners to grow. If you become hooked on rock gardening as a hobby, you can graduate to an ecclectic assortment of speciality plants.
PERENNIALS AND BIENNIALS
SPRING
Aquilegia spp. (columbines)
Arabis spp. (wall rock cresses)
Armeria maritima (sea pink, thrift)
Aubrieta deltoidea (rock cress)
Aurinia saxatilis (basket-of-gold)
Corydalis lutea (yellow corydalis)
Iberis sempervirens (edging candytuft)
Phlox subulata (moss pink)
Potentilla tabernaemontani (spring cinquefoil)
Pulsatilla vulgaris (pasque flower)
SUMMER
Campanula carpatica (Carpathian bellflower)
Campanula portenschlagiana (Dalmatian bellflower)
Cerastium tomentosum (snow-in-summer)
Corydalis lutea (yellow corydalis)
Delosperma cooperi (hardy iceplant)
Dianthus spp. (pinks)
Geranium spp. (cranesbills)
Geum quellyon (geum)
Gyposphila repens (baby's breath)
Heuchera spp. (coralbells)
Leontopodium alpinum (edelweiss)
Petrorhagia saxifraga (coat flower, tunic flower)
Saponaria ocymoides (rock soapwort)
Scabiosa caucasica (pincushion flower, scabious)
Scutellaria baicalensis (skullcap)
Thymus pseudolanuginosus (wooly thyme)
LATE SUMMER AND FALL
Anaphalis cinnamomea (pearly everlasting)
Corydalis lutea (yellow corydalis)
Petrorhagia saxifraga (coat flower)
Sedum cauticolum
Sedum kamtschaticum (golden stonecrop)
Sedum spathulifolium
ANNUALS
Brachycome iberidifolia (swan river daisy)
Cheiranthus cheiri (wallflower)
Dianthus chinensis (China pink)
Eschscholzia californica (California poppy)
Euphorbia marginata (snow-on-the-mountain)
Felicia amelloides (blue daisy, blue marguerite)
Gaillardia pulchella (annual blanket-flower)
Gazania rigens (gazania)
Iberis umbellata (annual candytuft)
Lantana spp. (lantanas)
Lobelia erinus (edging lobelia)
Lobularia maritim (sweet alyssum)
Malampodium paludosum (black-foot daisy)
Nierembergia hippomanica violacea (cupflower)
Nigella damascena (love-in-a-mist)
Sanvitalia procumbens (creeping zinnia)
Verbena x hybrida (verbena)
Zinnia angustifolia (narrow-leaf zinnia)
BULBS
SPRING
Bulbocodium vernum (spring meadow saffron)
Crocus chrysanthus (snow crocus)
Crocus x vernus (Dutch crocus)
Fritillaria meleagris (checkered lily)
Iris danfordia (Danford iris)
Iris reticulata (reticulated iris)
Narcissus x cyclamenius (cyclamen daffodils)
Scilla siberica (Siberian squill)
Tulipa spp. (tulips)
SUMMER
Allium spp. (ornamental onions)
LATE SUMMER AND FALL
Allium spp. (ornamental onions)
Crocus sativus (saffron crocus)
Crocus speciosus (fall crocus)
Cyclamen coum (winter cyclamen)
Cyclamen hederifolium (hardy cyclamen)
Sternbergia lutea (winter daffodil)
