Rock garden perennials

Terraced stone garden

Rock garden with perennials

As a rock garden perennials is known in horticulture , the perennials that thrive best in the vicinity of rocks. For good development, they need the heat to be reflected from the stones, while their roots should remain relatively cool.

Rock garden perennials , in contrast to forest , woody edge and open space perennials , are not cultivated in perennial beds but in rock gardens . As a rule, they cannot tolerate nutrient-rich or waterlogged soils.

The rock garden perennials include:

• Stone purse
• Stone herb
• Ribbon flowers
• Blue pillows
• Carpathian bellflower
• a number of Sempervivum species

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