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Add Color To Your Sunny Rock Garden With These Stunning Perennials
By PEG ALOI
Creeping Thyme
This low-growing, fragrant flowering herb can be started from seed and will reseed itself. Give it lots of sun and encourage new growth by pruning leggy, dry stems.
Threadleaf Coreopsis
With delicate, lacy green leaves and colorful flowers, this plant spreads thin roots among rocks and other plants. It loves sun and is semi drought-tolerant.
Dwarf Plumbago
This drought-tolerant plant with green and burgundy leaves needs sun and sandy, loamy soil. Divide it in spring before its bright blue blooms appear in late summer.
Candytuft
Use this plant’s spiky green leaves and fluffy white or pink summer blooms to fill crevices in your rock garden. Prune its leggy, woody stems after flowering season ends.
Barrenwort
With green, oval leaves tinged red, this shade-loving ground cover produces tiny pink, yellow, orange, or white flowers in mid-spring, and its matted roots deter weeds.