Perennials for Use in a Rock Garden
by Albert D. Taylor
 Few gardens transport visitors to remote and rugged landscapes as well as rock gardens. It is rather extraordinary, yet nevertheless true, that if one talks to the amateur gardener about a rock garden he realizes at once what is meant. Attempt, however, to broach the subject of alpine flowers and he confesses immediately to bewilderment. He seems to be unaware that the object of a rock garden is, or should be, to enable one to grow the flowers that have their homes on the fringe of ceaseless snow, where hills the Alps flood the lush mountain meadows and rock crevices with exquisite blossoms at the first sign of spring. It is true that all the flowers grown in rock gardens are not dwellers of the high alpine zone; nevertheless that is the home of the great majority. The list of mountain flowers is so extensive, their classification seems so complex, and their names are so strange that the beginner gardener is apt to be alarmed when he first attempts to design a rock garden.
Perennials form one of the most interesting phases of rock garden development. The following perennials are either heavy in their texture of foliage, or very dwarf in their habit of growth. They will adapt themselves to cultivation in the congested spaces so often found in rock gardens. |
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