When looking for plants for a rockery, it is worth choosing those that bloom for a long time and look good also outside the flowering period. Thanks to this, your rockery will be attractive all season, from spring to autumn. Here are recommendedlong-blooming flowersfor rockeries, which delight with their beauty for many months. These 10 plants will make your rockery full of flowers!
Long-flowering flowers for rockery
1. Long-necked valerian (Phuopsis stylosa)
Long-necked valerian is a perennial growing up to 20 cm high, with overlapping shoots.Kozłówka has lanceolate leaves and interesting, fragrant, purple-pink flowers gathered in heads at the tips of the shoots. Long-necked chamois is a long-flowering rockery flower that decorates the garden from May to August. For 1 m² it is worth planting 9 trestles, with smaller assumptions you can plant it individually or 2 in a group.
2. Lepnica Szafta (Silene schafta)
Lepnica Szafta is a long-flowering rockery flower that forms a loose turf 15 cm high. Lepnica Szafta blooms pink from June to August. This long-blooming rockery flower is easy to grow and undemanding. When planting glue on a rockery, it is best to take into account 11 plants per 1m².
3. Dalmatian bellflower (Campanula portenschlagiana)
The Dalmatian bellflower is a long-flowering rockery flower, perfect for planting walls, because it is undemanding and tolerates light shading and drought. Bell-shaped, bluish-purple flowers appear from May until July.The Dalmatian bellflower has a cushion-like shape reaching 10 cm in height. Dalmatian bells are best planted in the amount of 11 pieces per 1m².
Long-flowered rockery flowers: (1) Long-necked chamois, (2) Lepnica Szafta, (3) Dalmatian bellflower, (4) Cymbalaria ivy, (5) Yellow beetle
4. Cymbalaria bluszczykowata (Cymbalaria muralis)
Cymbalaria ivy is a short, creeping perennial with fast-rooting shoots. Cymbalaria has interesting small leaves, purple on the underside, and blooms lilac from May to August. Cymbalaria in the rock garden can be planted individually or in groups of 7 pieces per 1m².
5. Yellowbird (Corydalis lutea)
Another long-flowering rockery flower is the yellow bark beetle. Kokorycz is characterized by nice, small, bluish green leaves. This perennial grows up to 30 cm in height and blooms yellow from May to September.It grows best in a shady position, in soil containing calcium. For planting in the rock garden, it is advisable to provide 25 plants per 1 m².
6. Geranium himalayense
Himalayan geranium is a rapidly growing perennial that reaches 40 cm in height. The advantage of the geranium is the fact that its leaves change color in autumn, and light purple flowers appear in May and last until August. It is worth planting 7 Himalayan geraniums on 1m².
7. Pink slope (Coreopsis rosea) 'American dream'
The pink inclination 'American dream' is a low 30 cm long flower for a rockery with narrow green leaves. It blooms as the name suggests pink. It requires permeable soil, and tolerates the periodic shortage of moisture. It is worth planting 11 pieces of pink slope per square meter.
Flowers for long-flowering rockeries: (6) Himalayan geranium, (7) pink slope, (8) evening primrose, (9) seaside slope, (10) mountain beaver
8. Evening primrose (Oenothera speciosa)
Evening primrose is a perennial that forms underground stolons, long blooming white, which turns pink as it fades. An additional advantage of the evening primrose is the fact that the perennial has a strong smell. It is worth planting 9 pieces for planting the rock garden. Evening primrose on 1m².
9. Seaside coven (Armeria maritima)
The coastal bind is an evergreen perennial that can reach 10 cm in height. The entrail has attractive grassy leaves and interesting purple flowers, which are gathered in capitate inflorescences on leafless stalks. The coastal zone blooms from May to September. It comes in many interesting varieties, thanks to which we can meet flowers in pink, purple and white colors. This long-blooming rockery flower grows best in sandy soil in a sunny position.
10. Mountain beak (Alyssum montanum)
Mountain Smagliczka is a long-blooming flower for rockery, only 5 cm high.It has numerous rosettes of gray leaves and small charming flowers gathered in inflorescences 20 cm high. Smagliczka blooms from April to June. It grows best in a sunny position, also doing well in poorer soil. It is best to plant 9 pieces per 1 m².
MSc Eng. Joanna Białowąs
