Large deep red flowers with black blotches on the bases of the petals, open at the ends of quite short hairy stems. Broadcast the seeds where needed in borders or it can it be grown as a rockery plant or alpine. (RHS AGM winner) ... Learn More

This is a dwarf variant of the more common alpine poppy, Papaver alpinum, with very short stems bearing large white flowers with a large boss of yellow stamens, and very full petals. It grows on high screes and rocks in the Austrian Alps. ... Learn More

A statuesque and elegant alpine lily with thin grassy leaves bearing fragrant, green-spotted, white bell-shaped flowers. This beauty is perhaps the only worthwhile member of the asphodel family which will increase by self-seeding. ... Learn More

This stout beauty displays showy, dense, terminal racemes with large, rich blue flowers, above broad lanceolate leaves. It is a native of rocky sites in sub alpine regions in Wyoming and Colorado, where it lives at elevations up to 6,000 feet. ... Learn More

This delightful, bone hardy, extremely dwarf shrub is native mainly to California and is confined to rocks and crevices in the mountains of the interior of western North America. It displays its evergreen blue-green tufts, and attractive, small bottle brush-like white flowers in summer and does well in sun or part shade in very sharply drained soil. In cultivation it will do well in trough, crevice garden or scree bed and will make a good pan for an alpine show. ... Learn More

The "Tunic Flower" is a low-growing alpine or rock garden plant, which forms a mound of fresh-green leaves, bearing a cloud of tiny white or pale pink flowers beginning in early summer, and continuing for weeks. It is excellent as an edging plant, or growing in the cracks of rock walls where plants will self seed prolifically, unless faded flowers are trimmed off. This species is an excellent choice for summer colour in the rock garden where it will stay evergreen in mild winter areas ... Learn More

This rare, showy perennial species of Phacelia, endemic to western North America, grows mainly at subalpine to alpine elevations in forest openings, or above the treeline among rocks and sand. The showy, deep blue-mauve sprays of flowers have prominent anthers, which add to its appeal, but the foliage is quite extravagant being composed of tufts of deeply cut, grey silky foliage. A magnificent plant for a dry rockery or to win a prize as a potted alpine specimen! ... Learn More

Forming small clumps up to 6 inches high, this lovely alpine, found in the wild in the eastern Alps, bears compact heads of attractive mauvey-purple tubular flowers, each head, rather than being a single bloom, actually consisting of a collection of smaller ones, huddled together, rather imitating a scabious to which it is totally unrelated. ... Learn More

Spiky, violet-blue pom-pom flowers open with curious, shiny-blue claws protruding from them. The lanceolate, deep green leaves unfurl in early spring forming a neat rosette. This extremely neat and tidy little herbaceous alpine is perfect for the rock garden or scree. ... Learn More

Attractive clusters of sizeable violet-blue flowers, each with a distinct golden yellow eye, smother the wooly, grey, compact-bushy foliage, their dwarf habit making them ideal in the front of borders, or even containers. This very rare plant is native to the high arctic, and in Greenland it is found only in a small area on the east coast. The whole plant is pubescent, with long woolly hairs. In the wild this gem grows on gravelly slopes and in crevices. It will do best on a sharply-drained bed or even in a pot in the alpine house. Few seeds collected. ... Learn More

Delicate ice-blue flowers with short stalks and a very long tube, have a violet central stripe on each petal, and arise from a central rosette of narrow shiny leaves. This rarely-seen native of the Roggeveld in South Africa will do well in a rich, well drained soil in a sunny spot, or in a large pot in the conservatory or alpine house. ... Learn More

One of the finest alpine primulas, whorls of pure white, fragrant, waxy flowers are arranged in layers from the top of the stems, and these open in succession as the stem elongates upwards. The strong basal rosette is formed from long, smooth, farinose grey leaves. An elegant and lovely plant in a shaded rock garden or peat bed. ... Learn More

This is the extremely beautiful mauve form of this plant and one of the finest alpine primulas, whorls of farinose, fragrant, waxy flowers are arranged in layers from the top of the stems, and these open in succession as the stem elongates upwards. The strong basal rosette is formed from long, smooth, farinose grey leaves. An elegant and lovely plant in a shaded rock garden or peat bed. ... Learn More

Clumps of dark, fleshy foliage surround strong stems bearing bunches of golden-eyed, brilliant rose-purple flowers. This gem thrives in wet areas from the subalpine zone to alpine tundra in the Rocky Mountains from Montana to Arizona and New Mexico and is one of the finest of all American primroses. When out of flower they look quite similar to dodecatheon species, to which of course they are distantly related. ... Learn More

Beautiful, jagged-edged grey leaves are thickly dusted with farina, which also coats the flower stems, each carrying whorls of bright yellow flowers. This spectacular and rarely-encountered beauty can be grown in a dry, protected spot outdoors, but it truly does make an amazing spectacle indoors or in an alpine house, where it can stand considerable heat and drying, even on a hot window sill as in the illustration here. It can be very thirsty, but it rewards constant drinks, and occasional feeding with an endless display of fragrant flowers as it blooms on and off for much of the year apart fr ... Learn More