Plants for the Rock Garden - Displayed by Common Name in Ascending Order - Page 1 of 2

A very low-growing goundcover cousin to the familiar Baby’s Breath of florist shops, this species is well suited to growing in the rock garden, rock wall or alpine trough. It forms a compact tuft or mound of small, rounded fresh green leaves, with taller branching stems that are studded with starry flowers from late spring into the summer. Petals are white with a splash of pink. Requires a well-drained site.

A beautiful plant for the garden bed or patio pots. Also makes an excellent gift. Grow as an annual or a perennial, where plants will be covered with blooms throughout the season. Extra-thick flower petals extend the time blooms are showy in the garden.

Interesting balloon-like buds burst open into beautiful bell-shaped flowers. Exceptional branching and thick flower petals make for long-lasting light pink blooms.

This selection forms a compact mound of green foliage, bearing inflated buds that open into star-shaped semi-double white flowers. The small habit of this variety makes it a good choice for rock gardens and mixed containers.

With a dreamy palette of flowers, Elise makes an indelible impression! Glorious shades of soft and vivid pinks, rose, salmon, white, yellow, orange, soft purple and lovely bicolor patterns — an impressionist masterpiece. Prize-winning 4-6" variety flowers its first season without a cold period, working its magic in containers, beds and rockeries.

Compact plants have very colorful, medium-size leaves, making this an excellent choice for shade plantings. Separate colors – singly or in combination with impatiens or other shade-loving varieties – make striking beds,

Leaves have distinct veining and are a soft copper color that deepens as the season progresses. White spires of flowers appear in the spring. Plant to add brightness to shade landscapes or containers, wonderful winter hardiness and heat tolerance.

Ivy shaped foliage with dainty, heart-shaped flowers in mixed colors in shades of pink, rose, and cream. These are the old-fashioned style of Coral Bells, grown for their bright display of flowers in early summer.

It’s a miracle that Leontopodium Blossom of Snow exists! This beautiful plant, also called Edelweiss, was almost extinct. The Sound of Music is partly to blame. This movie caused a real Edelweiss-craze. Fans went en masse to the mountains to pick Edelweiss. Now Edelweiss is a protected species. Fortunately we can enjoy Blossom of Snow to the fullest. This new Edelweiss variety blooms like no other. Not once, but twice a year: in summer and again in autumn. Blossom of Snow has characteristic, large star-shaped flowers. Its flowers are pure white with a yellow center, which gives a refreshing look combined with its silvery foliage. Blossom of Snow grows to 16" high and 24" wide. This perennial is an excellent choice for rock gardens, mixed planting, perennial borders and as solitary in a container. And did you know Edelweiss is also suitable as cut flower? That is because of its exceptionally long flower stems. Leontopodium Blossom of Snow is very hardy. Put the plant in full sun in well drained, sandy soil. Prune Blossom of Snow after it has finished flowering. Other than that, this gorgeous Edelweiss hardly requires maintenance.

Silvery, velvety foliage with white, star-shaped flowers. Edelweiss is a favorite wildflower of the Swiss Alps, best suited to growing in a well-drained rock garden, scree or alpine trough. Plants form a low clump of silvery grey foliage, bearing odd clusters of woolly white flowers in early summer. These can be cut, or even dried. Short-lived in gardens, these will sometimes self seed when happy. Best in regions with cool summers. Drought-tolerant once established.

Abundant vibrant, tiny blue flowers cover compact, bushy plants. Attracts butterflies.

Grass like, tufted foliage with spikes of fluffy white flowers in midsummer. Attract butterflies.

Liatris spicata, also known as Blazing Star, is an unforgettable purple perennial. Known for its grass-like foliage and tall, spiky blooms that attract butterflies, birds and bees, Liatris makes a great cut flower and is deer resistant. Plant with Bee Balm and Black Eyed Susan’s for a vibrant, colorful garden.

One of the most distinctive types of Sempervivum. Aptly named, ‘Cobweb’ is covered with fine, white threads which crisscross between the leaves’ tips like a cobweb. Each rosette of pointy, blue-green leaves grows about 1 inch wide. Their color may vary from season to season. Unusual rose-pink flowers are produced on leafy stalks in midsummer.

Mounding succulent perennial makes an excellent groundcover when planted in mass groupings. Foliage is an attractive, bright yellow-green with tips edged in purple. Small flower spikes are frosty white. Thrives in rocky, well-drained soil. Evergreen.

A beautiful Hens and Chicks, ‘Carmen’ forms large 5" wide rosettes, spreading to make a 12" patch in a few years. ‘Carmen's’ olive green foliage is enhanced with red tips. Maybe 2-3" tall at the most. Useful in rockeries, troughs, or mixed with other hardy and tender succulents.

‘Emerald Giant’ is a bright, lovely shade of green with purple leaf tips and grows into a very large rosette. It even turns magenta in cold winter weather.

Jade Rose’s foliage is bright, medium green as it emerges, and then starts developing deep rose edges which eventually spread to the whole inside of leaf; the outside remains green.

‘Red Beauty’ sports medium sized, fairly open rosettes of grey-green leaves with blood-red tips. This color may vary from season to season.

This selection produces medium-sized rosettes with narrow, pointy leaves of ruby red to smoky grey-red. Short spikes of pastel flowers in summer.

This selection forms rosettes of sharply pointed, silvery blue to blue-green leaves which are flushed rosy red at the base. This color varies by season, intensifying in cold temperatures. In midsummer, unique pinkish purple flowers are held aloft on short, leafy stalks.

Forms rosettes of sharply pointed, silvery green leaves which are flushed with reddish-purple at the base. This color may vary from season to season. Unique deep pink flowers are held aloft on short, leafy stalks in midsummer.

‘Spring Beauty’ has medium-sized rosettes of grey-green, flushed with plum in the colder months. Short spikes of pastel flowers appear in summer. Easily increased by just removing the small baby rosettes and replanting in a new location at almost any time. After flowering, the mother rosette dies to leave room for the chicks: remove this by tugging gently at the base of the bloom stem.

This selection is a heavy producer and features bright apple green rosettes with dark purple tips.

Emerald green fleshy rosettes with tips of red transform to gleaming sunset tones of orange in cool weather. Mature plants produce short thick flower spikes of star-shaped pink flowers. A carefree, sun and heat loving succulent.

‘Royal Raspberry’ has rosy purple flowers with burgundy calyxes. New foliage emerges with a burgundy cast in spring. Best performance comes in full sun with well drained soils.

For glamorous color where it's hot, sunny, and dry, we suggest this exceptional Denver Botanic Garden introduction. Nickel-sized blossoms are apricot to bright orange with a ring of hot pink to magenta color surrounding the white eye. They are produced prolifically, blanketing the foliage from late spring through early summer and then often reblooming sporadically throughout the summer months. A vigorous, evergreen carpet.

FIRE SPINNER® is a weed suppressing groundcover that typically spreads 18-24” wide in two years. Its succulent, apple green foliage is evergreen and takes on bronze tones in winter.

Like all Delospermas, this one is also highly heat and drought tolerant, making it a good choice for waterwise landscapes. It thrives in rock gardens, on slopes, in containers, and in the landscape.

This easy-care, tidy, mounded plant provides an abundance of fuchsia-red flowers with a yellow eye covering the entire succulent foliage, not just the tips like other Delosperma series. Provides continuous vibrant color, blooming late spring and continuing through summer and into fall. A tough, drought-tolerant groundcover or rock garden accent. Thrives in container plantings, spilling gently over the edges.

This easy-care, tidy, mounded plant provides an abundance of red flowers with a yellow eye covering the entire succulent foliage, not just the tips like other Delosperma series. Provides continuous vibrant color, blooming late spring and continuing through summer and into fall. A tough, drought-tolerant groundcover or rock garden accent. Thrives in container plantings, spilling gently over the edges.

This easy-care, tidy, mounded plant provides an abundance of yellow flowers covering the entire succulent foliage, not just the tips like other Delosperma series. Provides continuous vibrant color, blooming late spring and continuing through summer and into fall. A tough, drought-tolerant groundcover or rock garden accent. Thrives in container plantings, spilling gently over the edges.

This high performing new ice plant, like it's kin GRANITA® Raspberry, closely hugs the ground, vigorously spreads and is densely covered with large flowers in varying shades of rusty orange that are at once bright, earthy and iridescent. A beautiful way to enhance your garden, provide nectar for bees, and save water at the same time.

A beautiful and unique new ice plant discovered by John Stireman among his planting of FIRE Spinner™. A vigorous and floriferous plant with large, striking, iridescent raspberry flowers that are densely packed. Creates a beautiful, shiny, dark pink carpet at the front of a border or woven throughout a bed underpinning taller perennials and shrubs.

This is a clear yellow sport out of ‘Orange Crush.’ Nearly ground hugging succulent fingered foliage requires sharp drainage especially in winter. Zone 5-9. Peak bloom of the yellow and white centered 1” flowers begins in April-May and continues into June. Full sun is best.

Delosperma Ocean Sunset™ Orange Glow, also known as Ice Plant, is a vigorous, mat-forming, evergreen succulent with a profusion of large, orange-pink, daisy-like flowers, with a yellow center. Continuously blooming from early summer to fall, you'll love these vivid flowers!

Delosperma Ocean Sunset™ Violet, also known as Ice Plant, is a vigorous, mat-forming, evergreen succulent with a profusion of large, violet, daisy-like flowers, with a yellow center. Continuously blooming from early summer to fall, you'll love these vivid flowers!

This orange sport of ‘Fire Spinner’ has a softness to it and slight pink bases to the petals. These low growing and spreading plants have fingered succulent foliage nearly covered with flowers in April - May into June.

An exciting new variety that is covered in blooms from early summer until frost! Daisy-like flowers are pinkish-red with creamy white centers. This prostrate groundcover is perfect for rock gardens or front of the garden.

A creeping, moss-like, evergreen groundcover that can be used as a replacement for lawn in cool-summer regions. Irish Moss is especially beautiful growing between pavers and flagstones on a path or wall.

An outstanding and colorful new cultivar sporting green leaves with white leaf margins that are tinged with pink. Pale lavender blue, 3/4 inch bell-shaped flowers with white stamens are produced from early through midsummer.

A superior evergreen groundcover with a very low, spreading habit and attractive soft green foliage. Use on slopes for groundcover or erosion control, along walkways, and in borders or rock gardens. Drapes nicely over retaining walls. A very durable landscape specimen that tolerates heat, cold, and drought.

Low rich green mounding junipers are the perfect choice for erosion control coverage on cut slopes and natural banks where run-off is a problem. This plant is perfect for nestling landscape boulders or softening the top edge of a masonry retaining wall. Makes an excellent winter structural plant for mixed borders that tend to look too barren in the colder months. Makes a useful problem solver in native and wild gardens when arranged in naturalistic compositions. As with most junipers it is welcome in Japanese gardens either natural or pruned into creative bonsai forms.

This selection has large, upfacing rose-red flowers with white centers, up to six flowers per stem. Really a dramatic addition to a hot color theme.

This selection has large, rich pink upfacing flowers. Really a dramatic addition to a hot color theme. 5-7 buds per stem.

Very large, long blooming yellow flowers, 4-5 flowers per stem, 60 days to force.

‘Oktoberfest’ is the gold standard in Miscanthus. The wide, deep green leaves with a white midrib form a narrowly upright tower about 4 ½’ tall before blooming.

In late summer or early fall, the foliage develops deep purple and red highlights which complement the showy flowers that emerge a rich shade of shimmering burgundy and copper, then mature into fluffy, creamy tan seed heads.

Compared to older Miscanthus like ‘Gracillimus’, this selection blooms much earlier (making it better for northern climates where the growing season is shorter) and has much improved fall color. It also develops its beautiful fall color earlier in the season.

Mat-forming, low-creeping groundcover with diminutive, bright green leaves produces purple-blue flowers, spotted red and yellow, in early summer. Withstands moderate foot traffic and competes successfully with grass. Very vigorous selection.

Uniform flat, starry rosettes of rich, chocolatey-plum 12" across and lightly edged in creamy-pink are certainly sensational in the garden and even more so when they're blooming. 15-20" strongly erect stems, studded with also-chocolatey leaflets are crowned in Summer with startling, radiant orange to red, urn-shaped flowers. When the leaflets fall, they birth new plants!

Happy Hour Banana is high impact color with its vivid bright yellow, semi-double blooms. The blooms have red in the eye.

Happy Hour Deep Red is high impact color with its vivid deep red, semi-double blooms.

Happy Hour Fuchsia is high impact color with its vivid fuchsia, semi-double blooms.

Fuller habit and large, semi-double blooms in vivid colors. Great for hot, dry, full-sun conditions, drought-tolerant Happy Hour is sure to please with its excellent garden performance.

Happy Hour Pink Passion is high impact color with its vivid pink, semi-double blooms.

Fuller habit and large, semi-double blooms in vivid colors. Great for hot, dry, full-sun conditions, drought-tolerant Happy Hour is sure to please with its excellent garden performance.

Vibrant, deep pink flowers on sun-loving, compact, semi-trailing plant.

Vibrant, deep pink flowers on sun-loving, compact, semi-trailing plant.

One of the best flowers for adding lasting color to hot, dry situations.

Explosive double flowers with pink centers and yellow petals that do not close at night. Great spiller for container in full sun with heat tolerance being a bonus. Perfectly sized for rock gardens and border fronts. Wonderful for combination plantings.

Explosive single flowers with yellow centers and orange-red petals that do not close at night. Great spiller for container in full sun with heat tolerance being a bonus. Perfectly sized for rock gardens and border fronts. Wonderful for combination plantings.

Explosive single flowers with yellow centers and orange-red petals that do not close at night. Great spiller for container in full sun with heat tolerance being a bonus. Perfectly sized for rock gardens and border fronts. Wonderful for combination plantings.

A warm season grass of exceptionally fine texture. Narrow green foliage creates a rounded, arching habit. In early fall sprays of rosy pink flowers spread over the plant. UNDAUNTED® is notable against previous cultivars for being more cold hardy and having a deeper shade of flower color.

Plants like Sedum sieboldii -- with stems that radiate outward from the center -- are the plant world's Fourth of July sparklers, but enjoyable almost all year. Most sedums are mounding, trailing plants grown as ground covers and in rock gardens, or as fillers for container arrangements. But Sedum sieboldii, also called October Daphne, deserves a pot of its own to showcase its beautiful scalloped leaves arranged in threes along arching stems.

‘Millenium’ forms a compact, upright clump of glossy green, thick and strappy leaves which emit a slight smell of onion when crushed. In late July and August here in Michigan, a profusion of large 2”, bright rosy purple, tightly rounded clusters of flowers appear on strong stems just above the attractive foliage. Butterflies and honeybees adore the flowers’ sweet nectar but deer and rabbits steer clear of this perennial beauty. This plant has not been known to reseed in the landscape and is very easy to grow.

Exciting and versatile, 4 Luck Coco Mint is an excellent component plant for containers with a great amount of diversity in colors. It grows low and spreads, then with maturity cascades over the edge of containers and baskets. It performs as an excellent groundcover because the stems will develop from the plant base under the soil, filling a small area in a single growing season. With that stated, trifolium is not categorized as an invasive plant.

This selection of the common creeping clover makes a handsome edging or groundcover plant. It was named for the number of four-leaved clovers usually found but there also may be three leaves. Leaves are three-toned, dark green with burgundy red triangles and silver gray on the outside. A very nice filler plant in tubs or mixed containers. Because of its vigorous habit, do not plant next to slow-growing alpine plants that might get smothered. Trim back hard in midsummer to rejuvenate the foliage, if plants begin to look scruffy. Easily divided in spring or fall. May be used as a lawn substitute and mowed at any time to the desired height.

Black Four-Leaf Clover. A vigorous perennial with charming leaves and small white flowers that bloom in summer.

Canary yellow, mildly fragrant, 3 inch wide flowers are produced in great numbers over dark green, lanceolate leaves from early thru midsummer. Following the substantial blooms, seed pods are produced which are beautiful in dried arrangements.

Interesting plant with furry buds opening from April-May into cup-shaped flowers. Use for rock gardens, borders.

An outstanding performer! Deep pink, fragrant flowers bloom so profusely they nearly hide the foliage. Remarkably heat and drough tolerant.

Mat-forming variety with loads of lavender blue flowers in spring. Tumbles beautifully over rocks, slopes, and banks. Makes a gorgeous border edging.

Lavender-purple flowers witha dark purple eye in mid- to late-spring.

A profusion of flowers carpet the garden. Creates a colorful spring show in mass plantings or with spring bulbs.

'Paint the Town Fancy' produces 1", single, rosy fuchsia flowers with a red eye and serrated petals. Flowers completely cover the plant when it's in peak. Its glaucous blue foliage set it apart from other Dianthus of its type.

‘Paint the Town Fuchsia’ is one of the earliest Dianthus to bloom, producing ¾-1” wide, single fuchsia flowers with lavender centers and incredibly serrated petals. Flowers completely cover the plant when it’s in peak. Its glaucous blue foliage set it apart from other Dianthus of its type.

Bright red, single flowers with fringed petal edges cover compact, dwarf plants.

Fringed purple flowers bloom in early summer and continue until frost.

The intricate leaves of ‘Hiippo Red’ are deep green with red blotches and plants are slow to bolt leaving more time for the brightly hued foliage to sparkle.

The intricate leaves of ‘Hiippo Rose’ are deep green with rose blotches and plants are slow to bolt leaving more time for the brightly hued foliage to sparkle.

Quick growing plant has leaves splashed with rose pink. Pinch growing tips to shape.

Highly praised for its large flower size and clear, vibrant colors. Flowers freely in a wide range of colors including yellow, maroon, lavender, white, pink, and blue-violet. Most have large eyes of contrasting colors. The ‘Pacific Hybrids’ put on a fantastic color show in early spring.

Reintroduced variety with magenta flowers has been upgraded for early flowering, better branching, more flower power and center flowering, and bigger blooms.

Reintroduced variety with magenta flowers has been upgraded for early flowering, better branching, more flower power and center flowering, and bigger blooms.

Reintroduced variety with magenta flowers has been upgraded for early flowering, better branching, more flower power and center flowering, and bigger blooms.

 

 

 

 

 

Having this plant in your garden will definitely feel like winning the jackpot: useful garden height, vigor in the landscape, and a rich flower color. Bright reddish orange flowers open yellow for a bicolor effect atop a large mound of grass-like, green foliage. After the first flush of flowers, this Kniphofia will continue to rebloom with new flower spikes, staying in bloom for most of the summer.

Bright coral - orange blooms cover this small mounding shrub from mid-spring to mid-fall. Coral Drift® has the most vibrant flowers that catch your eye from anywhere. Mix and match with similar or contrasting colors to really wow. Fully winter hardy and disease resistant.

Upright bouquets of beautiful, pink, double roses on a fuss-free shrub that will endure the trials of a long, hot summer with an unwavering blooming zeal. This own-root rose has outstanding disease resistance, is self-cleaning, and has proven to thrive coast to coast in heat and humidity as well as dry, hot summers. A dynamic hedge, barrier, or accent plant. Deciduous.

An eye-catcher of a trailing variety with pudgy, bean-shaped leaves that hang on stems up to 2’ long. The whole plant can flush a striking shade of magenta when moderately stressed by direct sun, drought, or cool temperatures. It grows fine, white tufts of fuzz in the crevices between stems and leaves. It produces small, yellow, daisy-like blooms and re-roots easily from stem cuttings.

Dense, rounded tufts form a soft, mossy carpet of yellow-green foliage sprinkled with white flowers.

Small, succulent leaves emerge coral and mature to green, becoming reddish-bronze in winter. Small, white star-shaped flowers appear above the foliage. A vigorous groundcover or rock garden subject. Evergreen.

Sedum ‘Lemon Ball’ is a selection of Sedum mexicanum (not reflexum or rupestre) that is a brighter yellow and more heat-loving counterpart of the popular Sedum ‘Angelina’. The soft, golden, rubbery, linear evergreen foliage is great for creating fun color combinations...and wait until the fireworks-like heads of bright yellow flowers top the patch in late spring!

A cheerful midsummer display of bright yellow starry flowers on upcurved stems in midsummer. Interesting blue-green pine-like foliage endures all year ‘round.

Fleshy leaves have bright variegation. Clusters of rosy-pink flowers.

Sedum adolphi 'Firestorm' is a beautiful low-growing succulent with trailing stems and greenish-yellow leaves with red margins in bright light or cool temperatures. It can grow up to 8" tall. The white star-shaped flowers add winsome contrast to the leaf color and those fiery margins.

Sedum sediforme ‘Gold’ produces long, dense rosettes of yellow-green and golden yellow leaves on a matte-forming plant. Pale yellow flowers will bloom in the summer.

An outstanding hybrid selection of a native North American wildflower. This forms a low rosette of rounded leaves, bearing upright stems of bright magenta-pink flowers with a yellow center. Flowers are easily twice the size of other selections, with flared-back petals that give each blossom a star-like or rocket ship appearance.

A silver-grey carpet of pointed leaves covered liberally in early summer with masses of crisp white silky flowers with an almost luminous quality. Foliage is a useful, year-round contrast to stronger colors.

One of the best landscape plants for all-season color. ‘Bonfire’ PP18585 is one of the most colorful spurges ever invented! The top growth is a fantastic combination of deep purple, red, and orange leaves with a touch of chartreuse, while the undergrowth is green. The foliage tends to deepen to burgundy red at the height of summer. Turns rich red in the fall.

In late spring, crackling sulfur yellow bracts light up the whole plant for several weeks. But really, who needs flowers with foliage like this?!