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Rockweler Rockgardens

MYOSOTIS: lovely shades of blue; long flowering and easily grown from seed.
Nepeta: Catnip; mussini (the true variety) best for the rock garden.
PHLOX: dwarf and creeping sorts, such as subulata varieties, amoena,
and divaricata. PRIMULA: among the most important groups for the rock garden;
one cannot have too many.
Saponaiia: Soapwort, easily grown and free flowering. Saxifraga: gems of the rock garden; innumerable varieties, all attractive and many most easily grown. Sedum: among the most "rocky" of all rock plants, and successful everywhere if provided sandy soil and full sun.
Thymus: the thymes are valued both for their spreading masses of foliage and flowers and their aromatic fragrance; use several. Tunica: clouds of pink flowers, summer and fall; most easily grown. Veronica: blue flowers; easily grown; repens is ideal for refined spreading mat.
VIOLA: cheeriest of all are the Johnny-jump-ups; easily grown from seed; are the most constant flowering.
TWENTY-SIX ADDITIOKAL GENERAL PURPOSE ROCK PLANTS Achillea: tomentosa, sibirica, and other dwarf sorts; daisy-like flowers. Androsace: beautiful but rather difficult to grow; try first chumbyi, carnea, and lactea.
AQUILEGIA: small sorts, such as alpina and canadensis.
ARENARIA: Sandwort; easily grown from seed.
Armeria: neat tufts of foliage, and dainty flowers; easy from seed.
ASPERULA: odorata and others, spreading, rather large for small rock garden.
Aster: dwarf sorts only, such as alpinus.
DICENTRA: formosa and eximia; splendid, usually less than 12 inches.
Draba: small creeping plants with, yellow flowers; easy from seed.
Epimedium: valuable for foliage all season long.
Erinus: very early pink flowers; sometimes self-sown.
Gentiana: rare, beautiful, desirable—but difficult.
Geranium: delicate lilac, blue or white flowers, worth striving for.
GEUM: heldrechi is hardiest and best for rock garden, unusual orange tone.
HEUCHERA: rather tall, but beautiful; sanguinea splendens isunusually fine.
Houstonia: native "Bluets" or "Quaker Ladies"; acid soil; daintyand charming.
Lavandula nana: will thrive in fullest exposure to sun, and dry soil.
Leontopodium alpinum: the famous Edelweiss, easy to grow but not beautiful.