Alpines

Nurserymans Choice Seasonal Alpine and Rockery Collection

Perfect for creating your own alpine trough or planting up a gravel garden. This collection will be be selected at random from our wide range of hardy alpine and rockery plants. We can't specify exactly which species you will recieve - that would spoil the fun! You can rest assured that they will be…  More Info

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Osteospermum 'Erato Double Ice Blue'

This African daisy is great for informal, and prairie style borders and planters, as well as alpine rockeries. Osteospermum erato ?Double Ice Blue? flowers from May until September, and has nearly white single petals, that contrast with the blue-edged double centres. Thrives in full sun. Height:…  More Info

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Oxalis Censation™ 'Double Pink Wonder'

…blooms, with red picotee edges. This Shamrock is a low growing bulb, forming a spreading clump of triangular, clover-like foliage. It is ideal for alpine troughs, pots and sheltered rockeries. 'In most parts of the UK they are best grown in containers and moved to a frost free position in early…  More Info

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Lewisia 'Elise Mixed'

A neat little perennial that is usually reserved for alpine houses, but modern breeding ensures that Lewisia ?Elise Mixed? flowers in its first year - making it perfect for bedding! The starry blooms in bright, tropical colours are produced above neat rosettes of evergreen foliage. Lewisia copes…  More Info

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Aster alpinus 'Happy End'

Unlike most Asters, this dwarf, alpine Aster is an early flowerer, producing masses of deep pink daisies in late spring and early summer. It loves dry, sun-baked positions at the front of the border or in rockeries where it forms neat mounds. Aster alpinus ‘Happy End’ associates…  More Info

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Arabis blepharophylla 'Spring Charm'

This mat-forming alpine provides vivid spring impact. Nestling in wall crevices and rocky crannies, it forms neat rosettes of mid green leaves. In late spring, it produces short racemes of sweetly fragrant, deep rose-carmine, four-petalled flowers which provide plentiful early nectar for foraging…  More Info

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Platycladus orientalis 'Aurea Nana'

A neat upright compact conifer, the Dwarf Oriental Thuja grows to a height of 90cm, making it an ideal confier for alpine gardens and rockeries and it will last for many years. They are very robust and can grow in all types of soil and conditions. Platycladus orientalis ?Aurea Nana' has golden green…  More Info

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Penstemon pinifolius 'Mersea Yellow'

…penstemon. Slender, upward-facing tubular yellow flowers are produced throughout summer. The plant is smaller than border hybrid penstemons and has a spreading habit. It can be treated as an alpine, thriving in full sun in a very free-draining soil. Height: 30cm (12in). Spread: 40cm (16in).  More Info

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Dianthus 'Fusilier'

Dianthus ‘Fusilier’ is a petite variety which bears masses of sweetly-fragrant semi-double flowers in brilliant red on bushy, compact plants. Height: 15-25cm (6-10in). Spread: 25cm (10in). Dianthus are classic cottage garden plants. They form neat tussocks of blue-green foliage and with…  More Info

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Potentilla neumanniana

…cheerful bright yellow five-petalled blooms in April and May. Making great ground cover for a dry and sunny spot, this adorable and robust little alpine is drought-tolerant and can happily grow in cracks in walls and between paving stones. Spring cinquefoil is a valuable early food source for…  More Info

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Sempervivum 'Mixed'

…display year after year. Extremely drought tolerant, hardy and low maintenance, Sempervivum 'Mixed' are great for wedging into wall crevices, alpine troughs, gravel gardens or patio containers for an unusual and attractive garden feature. These neat little succulents also make a great house…  More Info

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Woodland Strawberry

A woodland strawberry selection which produces an abundance of delicious, small, red fruits from July to September. The superbly sweet strawberries are carried high on the plant, making them easier to pick and reducing the risk of disease and rotting as most fruits are held above soil level. Ideal…  More Info

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Silene caroliniana 'Hot Pink'

…well-drained soils of rocky outcrops. The nectar rich flowers are borne in profusion in late spring and early summer, offering a feast for pollinating insects. This charming hardy perennial is perfect for gravel gardens, alpine troughs and the front of sunny borders. Height and spread: 30cm (12?).  More Info

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Strawberry 'Vesca'

Strawberry 'Vesca' is a little alpine or wild strawberry. It produces masses of miniature berries from July to September which are both decorative and delicious. This pretty ornamental edible has attractive, palmate foliage which can be used as groundcover along the front of borders and path edges,…  More Info

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Nurserymans Choice Alpine Phlox

Alpine Phlox are unsurpassable for creating low, spreading ground cover, or cascading down walls, slopes and rockeries. These resourceful little perennials will grow in the toughest of places, making them perfect for filling crevices or plugging narrow gaps between patio slabs. Their bright, starry…  More Info

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Gypsophila cerastioides

…spring through to mid-summer Gypsophila cerastioides produces pretty white flowers with tiny pink veins. With a mounding, spreading habit, this alpine plant is perfect for rock gardens, gravel gardens, patio containers, or spilling out of wall crevices. Height: 5cm (2). Spread: 15cm (6). Culinary…  More Info

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Aster alpinus Mixed

Unlike most Asters, dwarf, alpine Asters are early flowerers, producing masses of daisies in late spring and early summer. This mixed selection produces flowers in pinks, purples, lilacs and mauves. It loves dry, sun-baked positions at the front of the border or in rockeries where it forms neat…  More Info

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Anemone blanda

…with a golden eye are carried above soft green dissected leaves. These graceful beauties are ideal for planting through rockeries, borders and alpine troughs. For maximum impact, try naturalising them in drifts through grass or open woodland. Height: 10cm (4). Spread: 15cm (6). Useful links: How…  More Info

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Oxalis Bulbs Collection

Oxalis are fascinating little alpines with bright funnel-shaped blooms in late summer and autumn. This collection brings together 3 intriguing varieties, each with their own distinctive appearance. ?Gothenburg? and versicolor are half-hardy and best grown indoors or in a heated greenhouse. ?Ken…  More Info

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Anagallis monellii 'Skylover'

What a stunning alternative to Lobelia! The spreading stems of this pretty Blue Pimpernel make a carpet of summer flowers for your rockery or alpine garden. Its interesting foliage and pendulous habit are perfect for your hanging baskets too. This delightful hardy perennial offers an extravaganza of…  More Info

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Sempervivum 'Chick Charms® Gold Nugget'

…windowsill indoors, but it?s perfectly hardy so you can grow it in the garden too. Perfect for adding a splash of colour to winter rockeries, alpine troughs and those narrow, dry borders at the edge of the patio! Height: 8cm (3). Spread: 30cm (12). Plant height and spread is seasonal therefore…  More Info

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Alpine poppy mixed

These charming dwarf alpine poppies are perfect for adding a cheerful splash of colour to rock gardens, gravel gardens and the front of dry, sunny borders. Cup-shaped blooms in a cheerful mixture of yellow, orange, peach, red and white shades are produced in summer, on individual stems above deeply…  More Info

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Bell Cloche

A large bell cloche to help protect your plants from frost and heavy rain, made from hard-wearing plastic. It can be placed over plants such alpines and half-hardy perennials to ensure they are not damaged due to cold, wet weather, and can also act as deterrent against slugs, snails and other pests.…  More Info

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Silene alpestris 'Starry Dreams'

…white flowers from July to October. This elegant hardy perennial forms low, compact clumps of evergreen foliage from which flowers are borne on short, straight stems. This alpine catchfly is very easy to grow and its nectar-rich flowers are popular with bees. Height 20cm (8in). Spread: 30cm (12in).  More Info

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Blechnum penna-marina

A beautiful, evergreen, ground-covering fern for moist, acid soils. Blechnum penna-marina slowly forms mats of delicate finger-like fronds that emerge in shades of pink, bronze and red before maturing to fresh green. Lovely paired with the young bronze foliage of Epimedium 'Frohnleiten'. This useful…  More Info

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Lychnis Alpina

A lovely addition to rockeries, alpine troughs and stone walls, Lychnis alpina is a charming compact perennial. Rounded clusters of rose-pink flowers are produced in spring above a clump of narrow greyish-green foliage. This hardy alpine catchfly tolerates poor sandy soils and though not…  More Info

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Phlox subulata 'White Delight'

…or tumble gently over the sides of a garden trough. In late spring, the foliage is blanketed in hundreds of tiny white flowers. This evergreen alpine enjoys a sunny, freely-draining position and is drought tolerant once established. Pollinators are drawn to the lightly fragrant blooms. Height:…  More Info

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Prunus nipponica 'Brilliant'

The Japanese Alpine Cherry is a deciduous shrub or small tree that is covered in very pale pink, almost white flowers in spring. Prunus nipponica 'Brilliant' is very hardy and makes an excellent specimen plant in for small to medium gardens, its leaves emerge a rusty brown colour and slowly change…  More Info

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Leontopodium alpinum

…as Eidelweiss, Leontopodium alpinum is an utterly charming hardy alpine perennial. Distinctively soft and felt-like, the silvery star-shaped blooms make a striking display above the neat clump of narrow, greyish foliage. This alpine favourite thrives on excellent drainage, particularly during the…  More Info

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Oxalis melanosticta 'Ken Aslet'

Oxalis melanosticta 'Ken Aslet' is a cheery little alpine plant with attractive silvery-green, clover-like foliage which is softly hairy. The tubular, golden flowers that emerge in late summer bring a splash of colour to the garden as other plants are fading. This low, matt-forming, hardy perennial…  More Info

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Anacyclus depressus

This charming little alpine forms mats of ferny, grey green foliage, which will colonise rocky crevices, creep over walls and along the edges of gravelly, Mediterranean borders as well as making a pretty specimen for an alpine container. In spring to early summer, it produces plentiful red buds…  More Info

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Campanula collina

This rarely seen alpine campanula produces small mounds of downy, sage-like, basal leaves which bear multiple short spikes of violet-blue, bell-shaped flowers from mid to late summer. Campanula collina is a charming plant for a rock garden or alpine trough and for edging borders on freely-draining…  More Info

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Oxalis versicolor

A half hardy alpine with the most fascinating buds, like striped candy canes! In late summer and autumn the flowers of Oxalis versicolor open to reveal cupped white petals with bright raspberry margins. These delicate, spreading perennials make captivating specimens for a frost free greenhouse or…  More Info

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Aquilegia flabellata var. pumila f. kurilensis 'Rosea'

…dwarf plants with attractive, nodding, rose-pink and cream flowers against unusual blue-green, fan shaped foliage. This compact Aquilegia is ideal for planting at the front of borders, in containers or alpine gardens where it will self seed to create handsome drifts. Height and spread: 20cm (8).  More Info

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Fritillaria persica

Dark purple-black bells hang ominously from tall flower spikes. The shadowy form of this striking fritillary appears in late spring for an imposing display in borders and alpine gardens. An unusual and statuesque bulb that tolerates hot conditions and dry soils. Height: 100cm (40). Spread: 10cm (4).  More Info

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Phlox douglasii 'Rosea'

This dainty alpine phlox forms soft cushiony mounds of small, needle-like leaves. In late spring and early summer, it is smothered in masses of five-petalled flowers in pale shades of white and pinkish lilac. Makes a graceful perennial to tumble from containers, froth over path edges and scramble…  More Info

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Campanula carpatica 'Blue'

This popular and easy alpine campanula is great for spilling over walls, rockeries and border edges. Campanula carpatica 'Blue' forms low mounds of heart-shaped foliage. Throughout summer these neat mounds are covered in open, bell-shaped flowers which create cushions of bright violet blue. Height:…  More Info

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Erodium 'Spanish Eyes'

…and a beautifully intricate pattern of veining. Thriving in sunshine and excellent drainage, this gorgeous little alpine is a lovely addition to rockeries, gravel gardens, alpine troughs, containers and the front of free-draining borders, flowering from late spring right through to early autumn.…  More Info

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Poppy 'Pacino'

Poppy 'Pacino' will add a lovely bright splash of lemon yellow to rockeries, gravel gardens and alpine troughs from June to August. With low mounds of finely cut, blue-green foliage and short upright stems topped with the cup-shaped blooms. Japanese Poppies are well loved by insects for their rich…  More Info

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Arabis caucasica 'Rosea'

This resilient evergreen alpine forms soft mounding cushions of grey-green foliage which will tumble over walls, rockeries and slopes and along border edges. In spring, Arabis ‘Rosea’ is smothered in sweetly fragrant flowers for several weeks, blooming in a range of delicate pink shades.…  More Info

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Phyteuma scheuchzeri

More commonly found in mountain meadows in the Alps than in British gardens, Phyteuma scheuchzeri is a striking and quirky alpine boasting distinctive horned flowerheads in vivid purple-blue. The unusual flowerheads are borne on upright stems above a basal clump of narrow, pointed semi-evergreen…  More Info

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Campanula carpatica 'Pearl Dark Blue'

This popular and easy alpine campanula is great for spilling over walls, rockeries and border edges. Campanula carpatica 'Pearl Deep Blue' is an improvement on earlier cultivars of Campanula carpatica, with larger blooms. It forms low mounds of heart-shaped foliage which from early summer are…  More Info

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Campanula carpatica 'Pearl White'

This popular and easy alpine campanula is great for spilling over walls, rockeries and border edges. Campanula carpatica 'Pearl White' is an improvement on earlier cultivars of Campanula carpatica, with larger blooms. It forms low mounds of heart-shaped foliage which from early summer are covered in…  More Info

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Erodium reichardii 'White'

This pretty, free-flowering alpine is a delightful choice for long-flowering containers and troughs or to soften border edges and rockeries. Forming a mound of dinky, neatly rounded and scallop-edged foliage, it throws up straight stalks bearing solitary, saucer-shaped, white flowers with delicate…  More Info

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Azalea Plant - Geisha Orange

…beautiful dwarf Azalea, with vibrant, tangerine orange blooms. It is ideal for the borders of small gardens, and is also a great addition to an alpine garden rockery. It flowers in May and sometimes in June, helping to provide colour in between spring bulbs, and summer flowering perennials and…  More Info

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Strawberry 'Just Add Cream™'

…is delightful in both aroma and flavour. It combines the sweetness of home-grown strawberries with the special taste of the wild woodland or alpine strawberry. Perfectly formed strawberries can be picked from May until the first frosts of autumn, on plants that have pretty pink flowers. Strawberry…  More Info

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Arabis caucasica 'Pixie Cream'

…forms mounding cushions of grey-green foliage, completely smothered in small cream flowers in spring. Also known as Rock Cress, this sweetly scented alpine plant is perfect for rock gardens, wall crevices, containers or grown as groundcover in hot sunny borders. Drought tolerant once established and…  More Info

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Dianthus 'Cranmere Pool'

…of foliage that will produce pale pink, almost white, double blooms, each with a deep cranberry coloured centre. Perfect for growing in borders, alpine gardens and containers too, this lovely specimen can be grown on its own or mixed in with other Dianthus to make a colourful display. Height: 40cm…  More Info

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Erodium x variabile 'Roseum'

Erodium x variabile 'Roseum' is a hardy little alpine plant, perfect for filling small crevices and gaps in walls, rockeries and patios. Its low-spreading habit forms cushions of scalloped, grey-green foliage, which is topped off with a profusion of pink flowers with darker veins, just like little…  More Info

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Aubretia cultorum 'Cascade Blue'

…front of beds and borders. This fuss-free plant is tough and resilient, virtually looking after itself once established. Perfect for rockeries, alpine troughs, borders and wildlife gardens where it will always attract the buzz of pollinating insects. Height: 10cm (4). Spread 40cm (16). Plant height…  More Info

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Chaenorhinum origanifolium Blue Dream

A native of mountainous regions in the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands, this semi-evergreen alpine perennial is an ideal choice for a rockery, scree or slope, as well as making a drought-tolerant container plant. Chaenorhinum origanifolium 'Blue Dream' has a spreading habit, forming soft,…  More Info

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Aquilegia Alpina

…pretty species Columbine from high in the Swiss Alps! Aquilegia alpina has a charming simplicity that makes it a delight to grow in rockeries, alpine gardens and borders. Nodding blue bonnets perch upon slender stems from late spring into early summer. This is a variable species, sometimes producing…  More Info

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Campanula rotundifolia

…above a mat of small, rounded leaves. Flowering from summer to autumn, this hardy perennial makes a fine addition to rockeries, gravel gardens and alpine troughs. Height: 30cm (12). Spread: 25cm (10). Plant height and spread is seasonal therefore we list by pot size rather than a defined plant size.…  More Info

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Sempervivum 'Mixed'

…die after flowering, they are swiftly replaced by small offsets which quickly fill the gap. Commonly known as Houseleeks, these hardy perennials are extremely drought tolerant once established - perfect for planting in wall crevices, rockeries and alpine troughs. Height: 8cm (3). Spread: 30cm (12).  More Info

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Erythronium californicum 'White Beauty'

…up to 6cm wide. Also known as the Fawn Lily, this RHS AGM Winner is a versatile, clump-forming plant ideal for cottage and woodland gardens, plus alpine and rockery settings. Erythronium californicum 'White Beauty' is suitable for north facing sites and those in partial shade, growing equally well…  More Info

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Armeria caespitosa

…with pale pink flowers held in clusters on short stems. This charming juniper-leaved thrift makes a lovely addition to rockeries, gravel gardens, alpine troughs and containers, and being drought- and salt-tolerant, is ideally suited to coastal gardens. It can also be used as path edging or as ground…  More Info

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Scabiosa japonica 'Ritz Blue'

…rockeries and border edges, thriving in a sunny, free-draining spot and showing good drought tolerance once established. Like most scabious, this alpine form is a magnet for butterflies and other pollinators. Height and spread: 20cm (8in). Plant height and spread is seasonal therefore we list by pot…  More Info

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Saxifraga arendsii 'Mossy Purple'

…the edges of garden borders in cool, moist soils which don’t dry out in summer. It also makes a pretty specimen for a clay container or alpine trough. Saxifraga x arendsii ‘Mossy Purple’ forms low cushions of mossy, bright green leaves which are smothered in masses of upward-facing…  More Info

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Symphyandra pendula 'Fringe Cups'

…of soft, pale green leaves. The blooms are an excellent bee food plant as well as attracting butterflies. Drought and salt tolerant, it suits an alpine trough, or any well-drained position which doesn’t sit wet in winter such as a gravel garden, Mediterranean border or terracotta container.…  More Info

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Dianthus Starburst

Dianthus 'Starburst' is a compact alpine pink that is ideal for adding a splash of colour to rockeries, gravel gardens and containers, and for edging sunny borders and paths. Stunning, fragrant semi-double blooms are produced from May right through to September above a neat mound of narrow greyish…  More Info

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