Growing Plants On Rock Walls

Every spring it develops masses of cheerful yellow flowers that look terrific tucked between rocks and boulders.

Growing plants on rock walls.

The plant will cascade over rocks and low stone walls in a rock garden to soften the setting. Commonly called basket of gold perennial alyssum makes a wonderful wall or rock garden plant. Hens and chicks are great plants for any rock garden because these small plants multiply as they grow and because of their size they are able to creep into the smallest spaces in the garden to make it fuller. To drought tolerant plants with minimal root systems like hens and chicks echeveria imbricata or other succulents.

Plants that do well in a rock wall are varied in nature from small delicately leaved creeping plants like woolly creeping thyme thymus pseudolanuginosus or prostrate rosemary rosmarinus officinalis. Below are some excellent plants for gardening in stone walls. To tough forgiving annuals such as wallflowers erysimum cheiri trailing lobelia erinus and snapdragons antirrhinum majus that reseed themselves from year to. They do not need a lot of water to grow which makes them ideal for rocky soil that will not retain water.

Creeping thyme is aromatic like the edible herb but it s mainly grown as a ground cover or to fill in space between stepping stones. In warmer regions this plant can be short lived so replant every year or two. 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.