Alpine perennial

Clusius gentian ( Gentiana clusii ), a typical Alpine perennial

In horticulture , alpine perennials are perennials that, like rock garden perennials , thrive best when their leaves are exposed to the heat reflection from stones and their roots are in the coolness of rock crevices and joints. Similar to the rock garden perennials, they do not tolerate nutrient-rich soils or waterlogging, but they make demands on their culture that cannot be achieved in the lowlands under normal horticultural conditions. In the lowlands, they are therefore mostly kept in botanical gardens .

The alpine perennials include:

• Stemless gentian
• Edelweiss
• Saxifrage

literature

• Bernd Hertle , Peter Kiermeier, Marion Nickig: Garden flowers - portraits and care instructions for popular garden flowers and attractive green plants , Verlag Graefe and Unzer, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-7742-1796-3 .