Filter By

Light requirement

Light requirement

Height range

Height range

Drought resistance

Drought resistance

Frost tolerance

Frost tolerance

Flowering time

Flowering time

  • Woodbridge Nursery Instagram

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.

There are 22 products.

Showing 1-20 of 22 item(s)
Active filters
  • Drought resistance: medium
  • Drought resistance: moist winter & dry summer
  • Frost tolerance: extremely good

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.

Price $8.50
More
In stock

Aubretia 'Rose Cascade'

Prolific carpeting ground cover flowering in spring, along with phlox, auriculas, and pulsatilla. They look best tumbling over a wall or in a rock garden where they get good sun and drainage. 

Price $9.50
More
In stock

Convallaria majalis

'Lily of the valley'. Clump forming and easy perennial for shade or part sun, sweetly fragrant bells in spring.

Price $9.50
More
Last items in stock

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...

Price $9.50
More
In stock

Geranium 'Mavis Simpson'

A low-spreading variety with attractive grey-green leaves and pink flowers. Great under roses with Heuchera americana and Alchemilla mollis.

Price $8.50
More
In stock

Geranium cantabrigiense 'Biokovo'

A cross between Geranium dalmaticum and G. macrorrhizum with good ground-covering habit and compact growth. A useful landscaping plant which looks tidy for most of the year. The flowers are white to pale pink and held well above the evergreen green foliage. Also good in pots.

Price $8.50
More
In stock

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.

Price $8.50
More
In stock

Iris sintenisii

Choice evergreen Iris from Greece and Turkey with blue flowers like Iris reticulata. Our stock plants grow well in a sunny south-facing rockgarden.

Price $9.50
More
In stock

Phlox 'Emerald Cushion'

A brilliant cushion forming plant, abundantly flowering in spring and early summer. We like to use these for path edgings and foreground plantings with dianthus and armeria. Best in friable soil.

Price $9.50
More
In stock

Phlox subulata 'Amazing Grace'

Low mounding perennial for foreground colour, useful ground cover when mass planted at 25cm spacings under roses and along pathways. White form with pink eye, long flowering. Combine with dianthus helianthemum and miniature bulbs.

Price $8.50
More
In stock

Primrose

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

Price $8.50
More
In stock

Primula auricula 'Dark Eyes'

Semi double almost black from our own breeding, vigorous and strong grower compared to others. Gravelly soil and full sun with some lime.

Price $9.50
More
In stock

Primula auricula 'Pink Coffee'

A pretty variety we raised a few years ago from experimental crosses, with some creative contributions from our staff for the name. Good  clumping habit and a subtle colour.

Price $9.50
More
Last items in stock

Viola odorata

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

Price $8.50
More
In stock

Viola odorata 'Rose Pink'

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

Price $8.50
More
In stock

Viola odorata 'Swanley White'

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

Price $9.50
More
In stock

Viola sulphurea

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

Price $8.50
More
Last items in stock

Geranium peloponnesiacum

A lovely species from Greece, useful as a ground-cover for part-sun with attractive velvety leaves and deep blue flowers. Closely related to Geranium ibiricum.

Price $8.50
More
Out-of-Stock