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Rock Garden

Rock Garden

The following plants are distinctive because of their low ground covering habit, and suitability for growing in a well drained rock garden environment. Height range is from 1cm-30cm, so read carefully and choose varieties that suit your individual circumstances. For example; plants like Geranium ‘Mavis Simpson’ although low growing, are more suited to a larger space, where as Geranium dalmaticum is a much smaller compact variety that suits small spaces.

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Ajuga 'Chocolate Chip'

Finer compact foliage than the usual Ajuga. Dense, compact form suitable for rock garden or container planting, effective ground cover in damp areas.

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Bergenia cordifolia

Leafy plant from saxifragaceae family, useful for ground cover in dry shade where acanthus and euphorbia can take over. Good drainage and neutral to alkaline soils preferred.

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Galanthus elwesii

Widely known as the "English" snowdrop, these are native to Turkey and the Caucasus, described by British botanist and plant hunter Henry John Elwes in his botanical expedition to the Caucasus in 1874. One of the more robust  species, elwesii is easily recognised by its wider leaf and large flower. Best in a cool shady position on well drained but fertile...

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Geranium macrorrhizum album

A lovely species from Greece, useful as a ground-cover for part-sun with attractive velvety leaves. All the attributes of above with white flowers and contrasting red stamens. The foliage colours well in cold winter areas.

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Pachysandra terminalis

A useful evergreen ground cover from Japan for shade and woodland plantings. White flowers, attractive glossy green foliage; combine with epimediums.

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Polygonatum 'Silver Edge'

Beautiful silver variegated form of the "Solomons Seal", each leaf lined with a white line around its outer edge. Easy to grow in shade under trees and shrubs.

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Primrose

Primula vulgaris. Similar medicinal value to the cowslip, the root being dried and used in early medicine to manage gout and arthritis.

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Viola 'Conte di Brazza'

Remarkable double white parma violet, sweetly perfumed and delicious. Plant as ground cover in shade under trees, combine with helleborus, anemone, dicentra, and epimedium. Similar to 'Swanley White' but as we have collected these from different sources we have listed separately.

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Viola 'Velvet Queen'

Faded lilac purple, like old velvet. Subtle colour lovely in drifts with other varieties for tapestry of colours.

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Viola odorata

A long stemmed form suitable for picking. Violet blue flowers in winter and early spring.

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Viola odorata 'Rose Pink'

Rose pink form of Viola odorata, use as ground cover in shade under trees amongst Dicentra and Hostas.

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Viola odorata 'Swanley White'

Double white form, sweetly fragrant and lovely. Easy and clumping like other forms, best used in shade as ground cover.

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Anthriscus sylvestris 'Ravenswing'

Tall member of the Umbelliferae family with ornamental dark foliage and contrasting white flowers like 'Queen Annes lace'. Easy cottage garden perennial for soil with some moisture retention.

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Omphalodes cappadocica

Native of Georgia and Turkey growing in shady places by streams in deciduous forest. A beautiful evergreen plant producing delicate porcelain blue flowers in the early spring. Works well as a mass planting beneath trees with hellebores and Geranium phaeum.

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Viola sulphurea

Soft primrose yellow flowers, a seldom seen variety with subtle colour. Plant with snowdrops and spring bulbs.

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