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Swiss Rockjasmine: complete guide
Androsace helvetica
Discover Androsace helvetica - a rare alpine gem with delicate pink blooms. Our comprehensive guide covers alpine cultivation, rock garden design, and sourcing this precious plant.
Bear-grape: complete guide
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Bear-grape (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi) is a tough, evergreen groundcover that thrives in dry, sunny spots with well-drained soil. Ideal for slopes and rock gardens.
AsteraceaeFalse daisy: complete guide
Bellium bellidioides
Discover the false daisy, a delicate miniature flower from the Mediterranean. Perfect for rock gardens and borders. Learn all about cultivation, care and propagation.
Buckler mustard: complete guide for rock gardens and alpine zones
Biscutella laevigata
Buckler mustard is a charming alpine plant with bright yellow flowers and unique spectacle-shaped seed pods. Perfect for rock gardens, scree slopes, and alpine troughs. Compact and hardy. Learn cultivation and design via gardenworld.app.
Bupleurum petraeum: complete guide
Bupleurum petraeum
Rock hare's-ear is an elegant alpine plant with delicate yellow flowers. Discover cultivation tips for rock gardens and why it's a treasure for alpine gardening.
Campanula alpina: complete guide
Campanula alpina
Alpine bellflower: delicate chiming bells for rock gardens. Perfect groundcover for shady spots. Hardy alpina offers year-round greenery with blue flowers.
Campanula fritschii: complete guide
Campanula fritschii
Discover Fritsch's bellflower, a rare dwarf alpine bellflower with exquisite blue flowers, perfect for rock gardens and alpine troughs with excellent drainage and minimal water.
Crocus ligusticus: complete guide
Crocus ligusticus
Discover the Ligurian Crocus, a rare autumn-flowering species with charming blue blooms. Perfect for rock gardens and borders with minimal care requirements.
Delphinium glareosum: complete guide
Delphinium glareosum
Discover the Olympic larkspur, a stunning alpine flower with deep blue blooms. Perfect for sunny rock gardens and alpine sites with excellent drainage.
Grass pink: complete guide
Dianthus armeria
How to grow Dianthus armeria: care tips, soil needs, watering, bloom time. Perfect for sunny, dry borders and rock gardens. Low maintenance & pollinator-friendly.
Dianthus scaber: complete guide
Dianthus scaber
Discover the rough pink (Oeillet rude), an elegant alpine shrub with purple blooms. Perfect for rock gardens and dry, sunny Mediterranean borders.
Drosanthemum floribundum: complete guide
Drosanthemum floribundum
Discover Rosea iceplant, a stunning succulent with abundant pink flowers and crystalline leaves. Perfect for drought gardens, containers, and sunny patios.
Epilobium dodonaei: complete guide
Epilobium dodonaei
Discover Rosemary willowherb, an elegant alpine plant with pink-purple flowers and silvery seed plumes. Perfect for rocky slopes and drought gardens.
Euphorbia clementei: complete guide
Euphorbia clementei
Clementei spurge is a unique Mediterranean plant from North Africa with distinctive flower structures. Discover this compact shrub for drought-tolerant gardens.
RubiaceaeLamarck's bedstraw: complete guide
Galium divaricatum Pourr. ex Lam.
Discover this spreading groundcover with divergent branching habit, fine texture, and outstanding drought tolerance. Perfect for dry Mediterranean-style gardens.
Gentiana bavarica: complete guide
Gentiana bavarica
Discover Bavarian gentian - an alpine jewel with deep blue flowers. Cultivation, care and integration into your rock garden.
Lavender-leaved rockrose: complete guide
Helianthemum syriacum
Discover lavender-leaved rockrose, a compact Mediterranean rock plant with fine grey foliage and delicate pink or yellow summer blooms.
Iris pseudopumila: complete guide
Iris pseudopumila
This compact Mediterranean dwarf iris brings early bloom to your front garden. Perfect color accents for rock gardens and borders with minimal care year-round.
Iris ruthenica: complete guide
Iris ruthenica
This Eastern European alpine plant with purple flowers is extremely hardy and makes a spectacular rock garden inhabitant. Minimal care, maximum blooms.
Murbeckiella pinnatifida: complete guide
Murbeckiella pinnatifida
Discover this rare alpine Brassica from the Pyrenees: care, habitat, and growing success tips.
PolemoniaceaeSanta Fe phlox: complete guide
Phlox nana
Discover Santa Fe phlox (Phlox nana). A dwarf alpine from the American Southwest with colorful blooms. Perfect for dry rock gardens and containers. Extremely drought-tolerant.
Snow Cinquefoil: complete guide
Potentilla nivea
Discover the delicate Snow Cinquefoil, an alpine gem for rock gardens. Learn how to grow this hardy, low-growing plant successfully.
Potentilla pyrenaica: complete guide
Potentilla pyrenaica
Pyrenean cinquefoil: an alpine plant with golden yellow flowers. Care, growth and ideal conditions for this mountain flora jewel.
Psammophiliella muralis: complete guide
Psammophiliella muralis
The wall gypsophila is a delicate, low ground cover with delicate white flowers. Discover how to grow and maintain this alpine plant.