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Help me love my alpine garden

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MerylSqueak · 12/03/2023 10:39

Or at least may I have ideas on what to do with it.

I don't like standard alpine plants, especially the ones which tend towards the succulent side like sempervivum. I can just about see the point in a saxifrage . I had a cistus there which was very happy but I dislike it because it only flowers when I am at work. I know it has flowered because I see the petals but never the flowers. I've moved it to somewhere it'll be happy but I'll mind less.

I like a country cottage style, especially blues and whites. The two things really don't mix. I've been tinkering around the edges but now want to get to grips with it. My heart just sinks at the idea of growing or spending money on plants I don't really like.

My garden is stepped up a hillside. The soil is rather stony with lots of chips of slate, tending to slightly acid but very mixed as to clay etc - I think mainly due to having been 'built' when the levels were put in. South facing. Full sun. Very little frost.

I'll attach a picture of the bed I really want to tackle.

I'd be very grateful. I browse looking for ideas for ages but never come up with something I want to invest time and money in.

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MereDintofPandiculation · 15/03/2023 13:48

One way to get colour all the year round is, rather than buying everything in one go, visit the garden centre regularly all the year round. That will alert you to plants that look good outside the usual May-June

CatherinedeBourgh · 15/03/2023 18:36

I agree with PP that that is a perfect position for a mediterranean border. Mediterranean plants and herbs are very well adapted to windy, dry positions and would thrive in that bed.

Maybe a few grasses as well for movement. Things like stipa are lovely in the wind.

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