Alpine, Rock, Miniature, Bonsai and Railroad Gardens
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Globularia nudicaulis Globe daisy Z 3-8
Cobalt blue puffs on naked stems rise above compact rosettes of glossy oval leaves, May-June
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Cobalt blue puffs on naked stems rise above compact rosettes of glossy oval leaves blooming May-June
Size: 4-8” x 4”
Care: Sun to part shade in well-drained soil. Drought tolerant/rock garden plant.
Native: northern Spain to the Pyrenees MountainsIn gardens before 1753
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Gypsophila repens ‘Rosea’ Creeping baby’s breath Z 4-7
Dainty white flowers from June to October
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Dainty pink flowers from June tOo October on short, thin foliage. Makes excellent groundcover, front of the border or rock garden plant.
Size: 8" x 12-20"
Care: Sun well-drained soil. Drought tolerant.
Native: Mountains of central and southern Europe
Awards: England's Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit.Gypso is Greek meaning “gypsum or lime.” Phylos means “loving.” Plant requires limey soil. Discovered in Siberia in 1774. American garden cultivation since 1800’s.
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Limonium minutum Dwarf statice Z 5-9
All summer long, droves of lavender blossoms above a mini pillow of spoon-shaped, glossy foliage.
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All summer long, droves of lavender blossoms above a mini pillow of spoon-shaped, glossy foliage.
Size: 6-8” x 6-8”
Care: sun in well-drained soil
Native: southeast France on limestone seacliffs
Wildlife Value: deer resistant, salt tolerantDescribed by Linnaeus, 1753. The name Limoniuim comes from the Greek word for meadow.
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Linaria alpina Alpine toadflax Z 5-8
Purple snapdragon-like petals bloom all summer and show off golden-orange lips
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Purple snapdragon-like petals bloom all summer and show off golden-orange lips
Size: 4-6” x 6-12”
Care: sun in well-drained soil
Native: Mountains of central and southern EuropeListed in Gardeners Dictionary, 1768. Wm Robinson in July 1872 issue of The Garden: “The alpine Linaria is never more beautiful than when self-sown in a gravel walk.” January 1876 bloomed for 4+ months in the rock garden at Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
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Linum alpinum Alpine flax, Mountain flax Z 4-9
Compact blue flax, perfect for the rock garden or in a sunny, border. A bushy mound bears loads of small soft-blue flowers for weeks in early summer and reblooms if cut back half way in late June.
Compact blue flax, perfect for the rock garden or in a sunny, border. A bushy mound bears loads of small soft-blue flowers for weeks in early summer and reblooms if cut back half way in late June.
Size: 8-12” x 10-12”
Care: sun in well-drained soil
Native: mountains of EuropePublished as a separate species in 1925.
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Lysimachia nummularia ‘Aurea’ Creeping jenny Z 5-8
Bright yellow flowers in summer, chartreuse foliage
Bright yellow flowers in summer & chartreuse foliage which is the reason to grow this. Chartreuse is the little black dress, it goes with everything.
Size: 2” x spreading
Care: full sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: Europe
Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit.Dioscorides (1st century A.D.) named Lysimachia after King Lysimachus of Thracia. By the 1590’s used as cure for wounds and whooping cough. ‘Aurea ’introduced 1815. Breck (1851) called this “suitable for rockwork or hanging from a pot in a northern exposure.” L.H. Bailey echoed this: “Very useful for rustic vases and baskets, also for carpeting ground in shady places.”
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Melampodium leucanthum Blackfoot daisy Z 5-10
No fail low mounds of up to 50 small white daisies spring-fall, atop narrow, hairy, grey-green leaves
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No fail low mounds of up to 50 small white daisies spring-fall, atop narrow, hairy, grey-green leaves
Size: 6-10” x 12-20”
Care: sun to part-shade in well-drained soil. Its tap root reaches down for moisture and hair on foliage protects if from desiccating winds and sun - xeric plant
Native: Colorado, Oklahoma, TX &AZ (no wonder it likes well drained soil) but perfectly happy as far north as 20° below zero in winter.
Wildlife Value: birds eat seeds –pollen and nectar attract bees and butterflies. Deer resistantBotany professor John Riddell found this in Texas, Described in Flora of North America, 1842.
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Orostachys iwarenge Chinese dunce cap In China called wa song shu Z 5-10
Three-in-one: starts as fleshy silver-blue rosettes spreading to 12” across, then pyramids (dunce caps) of foliage & finally pink & white frilly flower spikes in October. Mother plant dies after flowering but its offsets survive (like Hens & chicks) plus it reseeds for more plants next season.
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Three-in-one: starts as fleshy silver-blue rosettes spreading to 12” across, then pyramids (dunce caps) of foliage & finally pink & white frilly flower spikes in October. Mother plant dies after flowering but its offsets survive (like Hens & chicks) plus it reseeds for more plants next season.
Size: 6” x 14”
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
Native: China1st described in Western literature in 1878. Renamed several times – Cotyledon malacophylla var. japonica (1878), Cotyledon iwarenge, Sedum iwarenge.
