27+ Rock Garden Shrubs

Gardening with small perennials offers so many creative options. Yellow flowered deciduous shrub flowering from june to august.

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Rock garden shrubs

Creeping mahonia mahonia repens resembling the oregon grape but of smaller size. A low shrub with yellow flowers seldom more than a foot tall. Deciduous shrub about 1 ft.

The plants also have dark needlelike evergreen foliage that remains attractive all year long. High giving a constant succession of golden flowers all summer. All are easy to grow needing only a well drained and a not too rich soil.

Creeping thyme is aromatic like the edible herb but it s mainly grown as a ground cover or to fill in space between stepping stones. It has slender glossy and smooth darkish green colored leaves with alluring tube type lilac to magenta shaded flowers. The plant will cascade over rocks and low stone walls in a rock garden to soften the setting.

Potentilla fruticosa liana argentea. You can plant a traditional rock garden or simply fill a tiny space with these small but colorful plants. The soil requirements of this plant are sandy and loamy moist organic well drained soil.

They are also superb when used in container gardens and placed around patios and porches. Excellent for rock gardens. Here are a few plant ideas for a rock garden.

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