My Rock Garden

Lovely colours and planting Louise :)

Rock gardens are my favourite.
This is beautiful... well done.

Louise that is very nice
How many months of the year do you have flowers. I always found late summer was hardest until I added dwarf Bulbs.
Brian

beautiful Louise

You have a beautiful rock garden.

this is fabulous, fantastic colours and variations

very pretty

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loving it...;-))

Very attractive. Terrific photos of lovely plants. Well done, Louise

It looks good Lovely photos

Louise it all looks lovely..........Well done you Nice blog.......

Wonderful texture and color. Looks GREAT

Big 'thank yous' to you all :)
I just love Alpine plants and i try to make this area as well covered and coloured as i think it would be naturally.

Bjs, i know what you mean about year round colour being difficult, the 1st to flower is in March (Arabis & Silene) and
the plants in there that flower until late summer are the Erodium, Mimulus and Helianthemum, so about 7 or 8 months of colour.
I planted a mini Cyclamen last winter but i think it's gone :(
What dwarf bulbs did you plant ?

Very nice. I love the wall. Did you build it ?

This is just fabulous rock garden area. The planting works very well - great colour combinations.

Thanks Bernie :)

Hywel, i didn't, it was made by the previous owner.
It houses frogs, spiders and bees and Millie & Maddie sit on the rockery stones and watch to see what's coming out next !!!
(I noticed that some of the bees who were on the Escallonia hedge flowers came into the wall .... i think i may have my own hive in there !!!!
The hedge is about 30' long and is E 'Crimson Spire', this plant produces masses and masses of flowers twice a year and the bees just flock to it, it's been alive with activity for weeks now)

What a lovely spot to sit, it must be great having it lit at night too. I wouldn't worry about a hive, they're probably solitary bees, there's about 250 species of these, you're providint perfect habitat for some of them.

lovely garden

Your Rockery is very pretty Louis

Louise
There are quite a few that will extend the flowering
Allium narcissiflora a beautiful dwarf Aug/Sept clumps up well.
Colchicums Agrippum is nice, foliage smaller than most.That is Sept.
.Crocus Species,
Crocus Species Lavigatus Fontenayi
also the Safron Crocus If you have a nice warm spot (it does not flower for me) Sept /Oct
You mentioned Cyclamen if you bought it in flower it may have been a Persicum Hybrid these are not all hardy ,You require the wild forms.Cyclamen Hederifolium Aug/Oct,
Cyclamen Intaminatum for years consiered tender is now growing in the garden in a sheltered position
Oct.(Note I am refering to the West of England)
Cyclamen Coum Dec/Jan.Well thoes are a few, I have missed November I am still working on that.
Brian

Lovely rock garden Louise. I have a picture on my latest blog of a of small hardy geranium - G. dalmaticum growing on the rock garden at Kew. Its a sweet little plant, I highly recomend it.