Plants For Rock Crevices

The plants in these pockets are kept warmer and less waterlogged in the winter and cooler and moister in the summer.

Plants for rock crevices.

Photo by wendy hatoum. Plants with a trailing habit such as ivy leaved toadflax are designed for cascading down rock faces or scree slopes and can thrive in a wall. Your local garden center if reputable will stock plants suitable for your region and can guide you further on what will be hardy in your area. Rock gardening is a very popular style of gardening that uses small growing plants to create miniature landscapes.

Cliff gardens rockeries and alpine screes with a twist. Plants for rocky areas in partial shade moist conditions. Rock crevices create a favorable environment for growing plants that would not normally survive in your zone. Alpine plants which often dislike wet conditions and are adapted to growing in poor soils are another option as are many wild flowers such as welsh poppy which thrive in poorer soils.

A rock garden sometimes known as a rockery or alpine garden is a planting area designed with a hardscape featuring a selection of gravels rocks and or boulders it typically includes softscape plants suitable to those conditions. The plants also have dark needlelike evergreen foliage that remains attractive all year long. The beauty of a well planned rock garden is the rocks and plants work together to elevate each other s impact. The roots penetrate into rocky crevices and the swollen base of the plants allows them to rock in the strong wind.

There are many more great options for plants for cracks and crevices. The denver botanic garden s crevice rock gardens in early april. Cracks and crevices in cliffs and mountain peaks give protection to many plant species. Creeping phlox produces carpets of blue purple rose pink or bicolor blooms.

While a small niche may look unattractive to use the paving provides a cool and damp area that s often perfect for small alpines or sun loving and compact herbs. Rock garden plants with gentiana septemfida gentiana septemfida flower. While both species can grow to an amazing height of 16 feet brighamia insignis tends to be a larger plant than b. A bare stone path or terrace can look very austere but most have a few crevices and cracks that can accommodate low growing plants that aren t trip hazards.

And these hardy little plants often have. Plant in well drained dry soil. Alpine plants grow happily in sun warmed natural crevice gardens in a summer that may last only a few weeks in the high altitudes of their native habitat. An ideal rock garden plant creeping phlox thrives in poor dry soil that drains quickly after rain.

Gentiana septemfida is highly valued for its true blue flowers.