Rockery gathers no moss.

Looking good Sbg. Do you have the small Phlox, mine is just coming out now(sorry cant remember proper name).

what a picture this will be, the ferns already look lovely; Bjs and Andrewr put photos on recently one of what looked a bit like a double primrose ~ really special and andrew had a gorgeous blue flowered plant ~ they might look good?

Phlox sublata? I have tried them before but soon look tatty, I have another Phlox in there that is budding up, cant remember its species name either. Just been out to look its P stoloniferer 'Home fires'. May be a bit rampant though. Is that the one you were thinking of Cinders.

I have P. wanda but I want to try and plant summer plants now as there are lots for spring. Though in the damp pond end I am toying with a candelabra Harlow Carr hybrid. Oooo that means a trip to Harlow Carr :o) thanks for that Stickee.

good excuse to go to harlow carr!! lovely place. we went when they had an area of meadow flowers and grass, mostly poppies and cornflowers ~ heaven!!

Looking good!

Yes Sbg. I think it is P.subulata, but mine is not really rampant, it is quite neat and tidy after 4/5 years. Of course it is hanging over a low wall and the soil is not good but always performs well.

I,ve a slowly spreading plant of Veronica.....it even survived being dug up by the rabbits, the hardy geranium 'ballerina' is pretty too, little violas seem almost always in flower

It looks as if its going to be really lovely

Think its looking good aswell.

Looks lovely Seaburngirl.

That looks good already and when the plants spread it going to look fabulous!

Those Rocks are beauties you have made a really good start with your planting, I have just been making a mini rockery around my small pond, I have used Primula Wanda, Aubretias [different colours] campanula, Dianthus, Sedums, Forget me nots, pholx, viola, and Sisyrinchinium, mine is on a lot smaller scale than yours, so you can include larger plants, look forward to see it when the plants start to fill out and bloom;0)

You must have loved it when you got to the planting stage. You have chosen a lovely variety of plants and will get so much pleasure from watching them all grow and blend in together.

A tiring but very satisfying project I bet!

love raised alpine beds SB. Are you going to top dress with pea gravel ? stops rain splash & looks great with stone.

It's lovely Seab. It will be nice if you can get some moss, but it will grow naturally in time. I "MISS" my old rockery in the other garden. So many plants look natural amongst the rocks. I grow them in pots now - not the same :o(
Good luck. I'm looking forward to seeing it as it develops..

Could you have a miniature rock garden in a trough or old sink Hywel....all those pretty tiny plants

I've got an old sink which is waiting to be planted up :o)

Well done .. looks great.. adding to GoYpedia :o)

I have 2 belfast sinks, both reclaimed when my lab was refitted. The caretaker was going to throw them in the skip! one is a really small one on the corner of this raised bed. I have violas in that one. the full sized one is due for a 'refit' but its by the back door in shade so its 'interesting' to find plants for. I have usually used bizzy izzies. I love sinks Hywel, too. do a blog when you do it please.

I am intending to gravel them, I have put a handful of grit around the necks of the plants so far. There is plenty of bare soil to plant yet. :o)

I will do a blog. The sink came from my father's garden. It had been there for many years, and full of rubbish (he wasn't a gardener at all) But he wouldn't give it to me.
I just want to decide where to put it permanently before I fill it up.

I do like your raised bed and you have some lovely rocks there, Andrew has some most unusual plants that he grows in alpine conditions, we have two sinks that we grow all sorts of different plants, will put a photo up for you to see, I think you have added a most interesting feature to you garden.

Looks really lovely, amazing job.

You def have to try some Diascia there tho, they flower for 7 months of the year and are perenial and would look lush trailing over some of ur rocks. I had much success with these last yr but paid a fortune, I since purchased them on eBay £3.25 for 5 plug plants and they were top quality, so I went back and bought 25 more as am using them again in my wall planters and hanging basket. :)

looking good Sea... i like saxifrage if iv spelt it correctly haha, i have two, pink and white and spread well and pretty, im sure you will find what you want :o))

Looking good already Sbg. How about some of Spritz's erigeron karvenskianus (hope I've spelt it right) it flowers for ever according to Barbara and always looks lovely in her pics:-)

i do like it but i think it will get out of hand too quickly.
found a local alpine gc to havee a nosey at in a week or 2.

They die on me, I must find a crack in a wall or something:-)