Re: Rockery plants

Pamela:

 

Here's a list of good plants for a "Mediterranean Rock Garden"

 

Aethionema cordifolia             

STONECRESS                   

 

Allium neopolitanum ‘Cowanii’   

ITALIAN ALLIUM               

 

Anemone blanda                       

GREEK WINDFLOWER

 

Armeria caespitosa (juniperinifolia)    

MOUNTAIN PINK

 

Armeria maritima                      

SEA PINK

 

Crocus sativus                          

SAFFRON CROCUS

 

Cyclamen hederifolium              

HARDY CYCLAMEN

 

Dianthus                                  

DWARF PINKS (many)

 

Echeveria                                 

HEN AND CHICKS (many)

 

Erodium                                   

CRANESBILL (many)

 

Euphorbia characias 'Bruce's Dwarf', 'Tiny Dancer'

DWARF SPURGE

 

Freesia alba/refracta                  

FREESIA

 

Freesia cruenta                         

LAPEYROUSIA

 

Gypsophila repens                     

CREEPING BABY’S-BREATH

 

Helianthemum nummularium (smallest cultivars) SUNROSE

 

Iberis gibraltarica                      

CANDYTUFT

 

Ipheion uniflorum                     

SPRING STAR FLOWER

 

Leucojum autumnale                 

AUTUMN SNOWFLAKE

 

Leucojum vernum                     

SPRING SNOWFLAKE

 

Narcissus bulbocodium      

HOOP PETTICOAT DAFFODIL

 

Narcissus cantabricus                

WHITE HOOP-PETTICOAT

 

Narcissus cyclamineus 'February Gold'

DWARF DAFFODIL

 

Narcissus jonquilla 'Trevithian'   

JONQUIL

 

Narcissus triandrus 'Hawera', 'Thalia'  

ANGEL’S TEARS

 

Narcissus viridiflorus                 

GREEN DAFFODIL

 

Ornithogalum narbonense          

NARBONE STAR

 

Ornithogalum umbellatum         

STAR OF BETHLEHEM

 

Oxalis purpurea 'Grand Duchess Mix'  

SOUTH AFRICAN SORREL

 

Pelargonium sidoides

KALWERBOSSIE

 

Punica granatum 'Nanum'          

DWARF POMEGRANATE

 

Pyrethropsis hosmariense          

SILVER DAISY

 

Sedum spathuifolium                

CALIFORNIA STONECROP

 

Sternbergia lutea                      

GOLDEN CROCUS

 

Tanacetum densum amanii (haradjanii)      

SILVER DUSTY MILLER

 

Thymus herba-barona       

CARAWAY-SCENTED THYME

 

Tulipa clusiana                          

LADY TULIP

 

Tulipa clusiana chrysantha         

GOLDEN TULIP

 

Tulipa saxatilis                          

MIDDLE-EAST TULIP

 

Tulipa sylvestris                        

FRAGRANT WILD TULIP


 
Joe

Pamela Steele <pamela@nznf.co.uk> wrote:
I would like to thank everyone who has given me some really helpful advice for our newly acquired Costa Blanca Garden.  The excellent advice for evergreen trees for this fairly rocky but green coastal area as been taken up and the big planting has begun. We have chosen Olives, Arbutus, Carob, Bay, Ficus Nitida and 2 Feijoas all being planted tomorrow. Its all very exciting and these will complement the many mediterranean pines and the dozen or so Palms plus the many other shrubs which we already have in the garden.  
The next project is a beautiful rockery which we have uncovered - alot of bedrock, some added rocks, some of it under the pines, some in the open area. There are lots of earth spaces and I would like some advice of what plants would be suitable to grow among these quite dry rocks. I would like some showy colourful plants (not annuals), not all creeper types but I would some height in some spaces as well.
Thank you.   Any advice much appreciated.
 
PS I have just heard and read about the dreaded Pine Processionary Caterpillar!!!  Does anyone have advice or stories about this creature?
  
Pamela Steele
 
 
 
 


Joe Seals
Santa Maria, California --
where the weather is always perfect
and my NEW garden will soon be blooming and full of birds and butterflies

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