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Recommended Plants for Sierra Foothills Rock Gardens

The following is a list of plants that we have successfully grown in our gardens. To browse through our database of recommended plants, click on the letter corresponding to the Genus. Use the Pager at the bottom of the page to move through all plants that begin with that letter.

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Plant ID Plant name Culture ht X width(in) Zone Description
14 Aethionema ‘Warley Rose’ 4X12 4 All the Aethionemas are excellent on hot dry slopes and walls. This is considered one of the best, with rich rose pink blossoms in spring on a low mat of blue grey foliage. DR TNT
27 Alyssum propinquum 3X8 Another choice dwarf Alyssum from Turkey. Tiny silver leaves and yellow flowers in spring. Tuck in crevices of rock wall, or in between dwarf Dianthus. Easy and recommended. TNT
28 Alyssum tortuosum 5X12 4 Beautiful and easy Alyssum from S. Europe with silver foliage and yellow flowers in spring. Wonderful cascading down rocks. Every garden should have at least one of these. TNT
886 Anthemis cretica leucanthemoides 2X12 5 Fabulous dwarf silver cushions topped with relatively large white “daisy” flowers on short scapes. This particular form from Turkey. Very cute! DR TNT
550 Arabis aculeolata 6X2 Miniature tufts of small hairy leaves less than 2 inches across. Large bright rose-pink flowers with bright red-violet calyces are clustered on ends of 6” stems. We haven't found the right place for it in the garden, but it is so easy and cute in pots or troughs that we have to include it here. CA WN
887 Armeria trojana 2X3 A new introduction. Dwarf compact cushions of linear green leaves with purplish tinges. Bright pink flowers on short stems. From Kaz Dag, Turkey. Very tiny and very cute.

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