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9 Best Plants For Rock Gardens

Plants for rock gardens



A strange plant, whose flowers cling tightly to the rocky ground, we always love. Against the plain and dull look of rock surfaces, these recommended plants will brighten up any rock they grow on. The natural beauty between plants and stones will be fulfilled if you organize your landscaping and combine different plants in a balanced way. This variety gives you many choices for arranging your rock garden with various plants in size, height, and shape.


1. Columbine (Aquilegia)



Growing Zones: 3 to 9

Color Types: Red, Pink, Yellow, White, Blue, Purple

How to Grow: Needs full sun to partial shade and average, moderately moist, well-drained soil


2. Cranesbill Geranium (Geranium sanguinum)



Growing Zones: 3 to 9

Color variants: Blue, Lavender, Pink, Purple, White

How to Grow: Needs full sun to partial shade and moderately moist, well-drained soil


3. Lavender (Lavandula)



 Growing Zones: 5 through 9

Color variants: blue, lavender, blue-violet, mauve, pink, or white

How to Grow: It needs full sun, not fertile and well-drained soil


4. Sedum Autumn Joy (Hylodelphium spectabili 'Autumn Joy')



Growing Zones: 3 to 10

Color Varieties: Hot pink, bronze rose, deep brick red before frost.

How to Grow: It needs 6 hours of full sun a day and well-drained soil


5. Purple fountain grass (Pennicetum setaceum 'Rubrum')


Growing Zones: 9 to 10

Color variants: Burgundy Red

How to Grow: Needs full sun to part shade, medium moisture, and well-drained soil


6. Red Creeping Thyme (Thymus praecox 'Cocinius')



Growing Zones: 4 to 9

Color Varieties: Red creeping thyme purple to crimson

How to Grow: It needs about 6 hours of full sun per day, moderate moisture, and well-drained and alkaline pH soil.


7. Ice plant (Delosperma couperi)



Growing Zones: 5 to 9

Color Varieties: Red creeping thyme purple to crimson

How to Grow: It prefers full sun but will tolerate light shade, poor soil, and well-drained soil


8. Irish Moss (Condrus crispus)


Growing Zones: 4 to 8

Color Varieties: Red creeping thyme purple to crimson

How to Grow: It prefers full sun but will tolerate light shade, rich and fertile soil, and well-drained soil.


9. Ajuga Black Scallop (Ajuga reptons 'Black Scallop')



Growing Zones: 6 to 9

Color Varieties: Red creeping thyme purple to crimson

How to grow: A lover of part shade to full shade and average, medium, well-drained soil

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