from the Balkans comes one of the best alpine pinks which makes slowly-spreading mats of grey-green pointed leaves, which are totally obscured in season by the delightful fragrant pink flowers which are magnets for bees and butterflies. This is a perfect plant for a wall or scree, where it will improve yearly. ... Learn More

Another alpine gem from the alpine meadows of Albania with a dense carpet of short, pointed, grey-green leaves, and bearing inch flowers of a most brilliant red-purple. Very hardy and long-lived whether grown in a pot or a rockery. ... Learn More

An absolutely unique dwarf hardy dierama from the high African mountains. Pauciflorum literally means "few flowered", but what flowers they are! Delightful stubby-stemmed red-pink bells look out or upwards, unlike other pendulous dieramas, and, because of their alpine ancestry, bloom in spring well before the buds appear on other species. ... Learn More

This late flowering (August) alpine Dierama is one of the most stunning of this genus. On arching stems, the starkly-contrasting white bracts show off the pendulous deepest wine red flowers to perfection. The true species is rarely offered. ... Learn More

Bred here at Plant World, these new and exciting dwarf "Angels' Fishing Rods" will be gems in everyone's garden, their arching stems carrying pretty pendent bells in a variety of colours ranging from red through to pale purple. To produce these new plants we crossed two different dwarf dieramas resulting in plants which are all small, have masses of flowers, and are also very hardy. Their parents, two alpine dieramas, came from high in the Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa! ... Learn More

A bulb expert describes this as 'an orange-flowered bluebell with a green base', which just about sums it up. In the wild in Portugal, the Iberian Peninsula, North West Africa and the Balearics, it prefers rocky, stony or sandy ground, but in the UK may do best in a warm, sheltered scree or rockery, or perhaps even better in a pot in an alpine house. It is also referred to as the brown bluebell! ... Learn More

From clumps of attractive foliage arise strong, dark purple stems bearing magenta pink flowers with the stamens being prominently dark purple. This dwarf plant is the most northernmost species in the genus, and is found in alpine and tundra meadows from northern British Columbia, southern Northwest Territories (Mackenzie District), and northwestern Saskatchewan, the Yukon and most of Alaska. ... Learn More

This rather diminutive alpine is a slow growing, mat-forming, semi-evergreen perennial. It has rosettes of small, dark-green leaves and in late spring, bears racemes of fragrant, bright yellow flowers. It is ideal for pan culture or on a small scree or rock-garden. ... Learn More

This very distinctive species from Spain and the Pyrenees makes a tiny hard rosette of shiny green, toothed foliage with heads of disproportionately large white flowers. A diminutive, cushion-forming alpine which is amongst the earliest of rockery plants to bloom, and can be enjoyed even more closely in a trough. Best in gritty, evenly moist soil and full sun or partial shade. ... Learn More

Making tiny cushions of pointed, hairy leaves, and bunches of yellow starry flowers on thin stems, this tiny alpine is best-grown either in a pot in an alpine house or on a moist scree. ... Learn More

From the cold wastes of Patagonia comes this dwarf alpine with short stem bearing snow-white flowers above clumps of tiny pointed leaves. ... Learn More

Alpine with hairy ovate leaves which form a tight mound or dome, unlike many of its yellow flowered cousins this variety has pure white flowers in spring. A great addition to any rockery or trough. ... Learn More

This rare and beautiful Japanese high alpine plant makes a solid rounded cushion covered with sheets of almost stemless, golden-eyed white flowers. It is ideal for a pot or container or small rock-garden. ... Learn More

Sheets of stemless golden flowers open on a moss-like cushion on this potential show-winner that resembles some of the cushion androsaces. One of the most lovely alpines, this rare, choice, diminutive and very desirable mat-forming plant is found across North America where it grows above 9000ft, although it was first discovered in the Wind River range of Wyoming in the 1870's. Very few seeds collected. ... Learn More

Whatever next! Can you believe a strawberry with yellow flowers. And this is the rare variegated-leaved form. Attractive red berries (edible, although pippy, but loved by birds) and very similar to alpine strawberries, are produced all summer, on a creeping evergreen carpet. Perfect hanging over a wall or rockery, or as an attractive slowly creeping ground cover. ... Learn More