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a garden featuring rocks

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apennina appear a little later and are ideal for growing in rockeries or as ground cover.
This has to be one of my all-time favourite perennials and the alpine phlox which are now in bloom come in a huge range of vivid colours, adding a vibrant splash to rockeries and raised beds, path edges or shingle areas, growing only a few inches tall but producing a mass of colour.
A FAVOURITE perennial for many, the alpine phlox now in bloom come in a huge range of vivid colours, adding a vibrant splash to rockeries and raised beds, path edges or shingle areas, growing only a few inches tall but producing a mass of colour.
PHLOX This has to be one of my all-time favourite perennials, and the alpine phlox which are now in bloom come in a huge range of vivid colours, adding a vibrant splash to rockeries and raised beds, path edges or shingle areas, growing only a few inches tall but producing a mass of colour.
The property itself, on the market for offers over PS495,000, boasts four bedrooms and four receptions and its spacious gardens are complimented by beautifully designed walkways, rockeries and water features.
Growing to around two metres in 35 years, it is excellent for rockeries, especially in a rugged landscape.
Aubrieta is a great low-growing cascading plant suitable for ground cover in the border, rockeries or cascading from walls.
The garden also includes a raised flower bed, kitchen garden, greenhouse, fruit trees and rockeries.
THEY are among my favourite rockery plants, their flat heads of brightly coloured blooms providing a wealth of colour in rockeries, tumbling over walls and providing masses of colour in alpine planters.
Similarly, rockeries should be constructed with natural stone set well into the soil to resemble a natural outcrop.
DWARF phlox They are among my favourite rockery plants, their flat heads of brightly coloured blooms providing a wealth of colour in rockeries, tumbling over walls and providing masses of colour in alpine planters.
WITH their ruddy cheeks and comical poses,gnomes have smilingly presided over our rockeries and flower beds for more than a century.
For carpeting, edging or planting in rockeries, good varieties include 'Rob Roy', which is red, 'Pomponette', which produces pompon-like blooms and 'Monstrosa', large double flowers in shades of white, pink or red.
Its spiky-leaved small bell-shaped flowers in shades of purple through to white provide a much- needed splash of colour in rockeries, containers and borders.
Ideal for the front of borders and rockeries, they also look brilliant in patio containers.