{"id":2595,"date":"2019-02-26T13:08:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T13:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2595"},"modified":"2019-02-26T13:08:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T13:08:45","slug":"12-best-alpine-plants-to-grow-in-a-rock-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/12-best-alpine-plants-to-grow-in-a-rock-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"12 best Alpine plants to grow in a rock garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_0699.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2596\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_0699-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"867\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">12 best Alpine plants to grow your rock garden\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Gentiana verna,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0stunning blue flowers from late spring to early summer.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Saxifraga,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> forms a matt of green with delicate pink, white, red, yellow and purple flowers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Sempervivum<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,small rosette forming succulents, easy to care for that need full sun.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Campanula<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, bell shaped flowers in blue, white and purple on a carpet forming plant.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Sedum<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a succulent with star shaped flowers throughout summer.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Iris reticulata<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0small bulbs growing from late winter to early spring.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Daffodil \u2018Tete a Tete\u2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0dwarf plants with yellow flowers in spring.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Cerastium, \u2018Snow In Summer\u2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a mass of white flowers on silver foliage in summer.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Pulsatilla Vulgaris<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, purple bell shaped flowers on hairy stems in spring bearing silky seed heads.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Aubretia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, cascading plant with masses of purple, pink and white flowers throughout summer.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Thymus vulgaris,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> bushy spreading plant with scented leaves and purple flowers.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Spraxis, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">harlequin flower, a hardy bulb that produces a stunning display of multi-coloured flowers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 best Alpine plants to grow your rock garden\u00a0 Gentiana verna, \u00a0stunning blue flowers from late spring to early summer. Saxifraga, forms a matt of green with delicate pink, white, red, yellow and purple&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-head-gardener"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}