The best plants for the rock garden
Blossoms are rarely found in the rock garden, but they are quite possible to give it a nice splash of color. Evergreen trees, ground cover and beautiful grasses are often used.
- Woods
- Ground cover
- Flowering plants
- Succulents
- Grasses
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Woods for the rock garden
If you have a creative garden vein, you should buy trees that are easy to cut for your rock garden and cut them into shape. If you want to enjoy the rock garden in winter too, you should plant evergreen shrubs and trees. Below is an overview of beautiful trees that you can use to plant your rock garden:
| Surname | Evergreen | characteristics |
|---|---|---|
| Barberry | no | Edible fruits |
| Boxwood | Japanese maple | no |
| Fan looser | no | Red fruits |
| Finger bush | no | Beautiful yellow flowers |
| Japanese maple | no | Red autumn leaves |
| Carpet Cotoneaster | Yes | Poisonous |
| Crawler | Yes | Can be grown both as a ground cover and as a shrub |
| Oregon grape | Yes | Poisonous |
| Stone gorse | Yes | Yellow flowers in May / June |
| Dwarf gold spar | no | Long flowering period |
Plant the rock garden with ground cover
Some ground cover spread quickly, overgrowing the beautiful gravel. Therefore, rather small carpet plants should be chosen for the rock garden. They should also be hardy. The following ground covers stay small and are also evergreen:
- Mountain stone herb
- Blue-gray fat leaf
- Blue pillows
- Brown plumage pad
- Multicolored fatty leaf
- Compact hornwort
- Olympus rockflowers
- Upholstery bellflower
- Hot stonecrop
- different varieties of straw beak
- Carpet flame flower or upholstery flame flower
More evergreen ground cover can be found here.
Flowering plants for the planting of the rock garden
Plants in the rock garden should be as easy to care for as possible and be able to withstand a lot of sun, which significantly limits the choice of flowering plants. Flowering plants that require little water are z. B .:
- Alpine aster
- Alpine edelweiss
- Alpine toadflax
- Blue rhombus
- Bitterroot
- Echinacea
- Thistle
- Verbena
- gentian
- fuchsia
- Carnation
- Junker lily
- Mullein
- lavender
- Girl's eye
- Cloves
- Pearl basket
- Pink evening primrose
- Roses
- sage
- Candytuft
- Shrub rose
Succulents for the rock garden
Succulents require very little water and do well in full sun locations. Hence, they are a very good choice for the rock garden. However, make sure that your succulents are hardy so they don't freeze to death in winter. Some hardy succulents:
- Mountain cactus
- Echeveria elegans
- Echeceria agavoides
- Echinocereus viridiflorus
- Prickly pear
- Ball cactus
- the Opuntia species: Opuntia ficus-indica, Opuntia imbricata, Opuntia tortispina
- Sedum species
- Sempervivum species
- the yucca species: Yucca baccata, Yucca elata, Yucca brevifolia, Yucca filamentosa
You can find more information about the hardy succulents and their care needs here.
Grasses for the rock garden
Rock gardens are reminiscent of the south and warmth. This effect can be underlined with light grass swaying in the wind. The twelve most beautiful grasses for planting the rock garden are:
- Blue grass
- Feather grass species
- oats
- Grove
- Lamp cleaner grass
- Mosquito grass
- Pearl grass
- Purple love grass
- Rainbow fescue
- Schillergrass
- Fescue species
- Sedges species
Tips
Put a small one in your rock garden Watercourse at. You can then plant moisture-loving plants near water. here find out how it's done.
