Rock Garden - Page 27 of 34 - Fine Gardening
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Plant GuideWintergreen
Gaultheria procumbensThis creeping, rhizomatous shrublet grows to 6 inches, with scalloped or bristly toothed, glossy, dark green leaves.
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Plant Guide‘Elijah Blue’ Blue fescue
Festuca glauca 'Elijah Blue'These compact tufts of 8-inch-long powder-blue leaves are well suited for edging and naturalizing in the rock garden.
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Plant Guide
Myrtle spurge
Euphorbia myrsinitesLong-lasting, terminal clusters of lime green bracts and flowers punctuate the meandering 'arms' of this ground-hugging species.
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Plant Guide‘Glacier Blue’ Euphorbia characias
Euphorbia characias 'Glacier Blue'This upright, evergreen shrub has stunning texture and form.
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Plant GuideCarnation
Dianthus 'Neon Star'This hybrid has a compact, mounding habit, with silvery-blue foliage and fluorescent pink toothed flowers, which continue blooming with deadheading.
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Plant GuideShowy lady’s slipper
Cypripedium reginaeThis terrestrial orchid has 3 to 7 oval to lance-shaped leaves.
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Plant GuideCrocus speciosus
Crocus speciosusThis autumn-flowering cormous perennial bears long-tubed flowers in shades of violet-blue with deeper blue veins and divided, bright orange styles.
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Plant Guide
Rockspray
Cotoneaster horizontalisThis deciduous shrub has a spreading habit and branches that form a herringbone pattern.
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Plant Guide
Ground morning glory
Convolvulus mauritanicusGround morning glory is a trailing low grower with a profusion of funnel-shaped lavender flowers from summer to early autumn.
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Plant Guide‘Waterlily’ autumn crocus
Colchicum 'Waterlily'Semi-erect, narrowly ovate leaves 7-10 inches long appear in spring and disappear by summer, followed by large, fully double, rosy lilac flowers resembling the blooms of a waterlily.
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