20+ Small Rock Garden Shrubs

A rock garden may integrate the entire landscape or serve as an accent piece. The rock cress is an alpine plant and a herbaceous perennial that can easily be grown as part of a rock garden because it thrives in places where many other flowers don t hills and slopes.

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Small rock garden shrubs

A low shrub with yellow flowers seldom more than a foot tall. Creeping phlox produces carpets of blue purple rose pink or bicolor blooms. Smaller bulbs are nice choice especially small daffodils wild tulip species blue eyed grass or brodiaea.

Rock garden designs can range from to sprawling naturalistic creations to faux dried river beds to rustic mounds of stones soil and plants it all depends on your preferences and the amount of space and rock you have to work with. That s where these low maintenance shrubs and bushes come in. Creeping plants are fun to use too because they soften the hard edges of the rocks and help blend your plantings over time.

They ll tolerate some shade. The rock cress prefers locations where it can get both sun and shade if the weather is hotter. Some small rock garden plants are creepers including dragon s blood stonecrop.

Excellent for rock gardens. If you have a small area often the best design is a simple round raised bed made of select rocks this design can fit neatly into any well chosen nook and will. It needs a slightly acidic and well drained soil that should be watered only when dry after the establishment of the plant.

Just note that some may. Traditional rock gardens are planted at high altitudes where they must withstand the rigors of heat high winds and drought. We know not everyone has the time or talents to maintain a flourishing flower bed year round from evergreens to winter garden ideas and everything in between these plants give your landscape a facelift minus any tedious watering and pruning on your end.

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