From the Alps, this is considered to be possibly the most desirable of allium species being closely related to the equally beautiful Allium narcissiflorum. A very scarce species, it has heads of up to five individually very large flowers of bright rose pink, hanging in clustered heads in summer. This is a neat, non-invasive plant for a sunny alpine bed or trough and produces very few seeds indeed. ... Learn More

Growing in high alpine meadows, this ornamental plant resembles a more vigorous "Chives" or Allium schoenoprasum. It makes compact clumps of hollow stems above which open numerous deep pink flower-heads. ... Learn More

This superb, easy, alpine or garden species has bright, hot-pink to magenta flowers with the stamens sticking out from each flower making the flower ball look fluffy. Thick, flattened, sickle-shaped, blue-green leaves persist until well after flowering. It is native to north eastern California and nearby parts of Oregon and Nevada where the leaves, bulbs, and seeds were utilized as food by the Paiute people. ... Learn More

Allium sibthorpianum, commonly known as Sibthorp’s Onion or Dwarf Onion, is a low-growing, hardy perennial prized for its delicate clusters of star-shaped, pale pink to rosy-purple flowers. Blooming in late spring to early summer, this compact species thrives in rock gardens, alpine settings, or dry, well-drained soils where larger plants might struggle. Its narrow, grass-like leaves remain attractive throughout the growing season, adding texture and color to the garden even after flowering has finished. This drought-tolerant plant is ideal for gardeners seeking a low-maintenance yet visual ... Learn More

This tiny alpine makes a tight clump with nodding umbels of striking, cobalt-blue flowers with linear mid-green leaves, in early summer. This plant offers a valuable departure from the more usual pinks and mauves! ... Learn More

This rather tall plant bears creamy-green flowers from May until August. In the wild it inhabits mountainous or northerly regions across Europe and Asia. The species name Victorialis comes from the German Siegwurz (Root of Victory) and it earned this name having been "worn as an amulet, to be as safeguard against the attacks of certain impure spirits," by Bohemian miners among others. The plant, during earlier centuries in certain mountainous regions of Europe, "was cultivated as a medicinal and fetish plant" Hmmm.... what an intriguing history. ... Learn More

From the high mountains of central and eastern Europe comes this rare alpine gem which makes a compact cushion of small silver-grey leaves supporting numerous bright yellow flowers. It will make an ideal subject for a well-drained dry scree, rockery, or alpine house. ... Learn More

New and rarely-offered, this fabulous alpine-house, rockery or wall plant produces solid cushions of tiny velvety silvery-grey leaves, which disappear in spring under sheets of thousands of tightly packed, fragrant golden flowers, and is as choice as you can get with a spring alpine. It is native to the high mountains of Greece, Bulgaria and Romania. ... Learn More

A spreading alpine plant with yellow-eyed, white daisy type flowers sitting just above the grey-green, ferny foliage . The flowers close at dusk or on cloudy days to show a fuchsia underside. Best in a sunny spot with well-drained soil. Suitable for rock gardens and even stone walls. ... Learn More

The lovely British native "Scarlet pimpernel" is too often overlooked, but closer inspection of the flower and seed capsule will reveals the fact that it is in fact in the primula family! Its stemless scarlet-red flowers appear over a very long succession all summer long. When allowed to naturalise in a hot place it will surpass many of the more common alpine plants, and it will even send out its long, leafy prostrate stems where others will not, such as on hot dry banks and rockeries. ... Learn More

One of the compact mossy kinds of androsace, this dwarf alpine from the Caucasus mountains forms small rosettes of deeply-toothed oval leaves and dense heads of pale pink flowers from April to July and is best in an alpine house or on a dry rockery. ... Learn More

A choice and hardy alpine forming low cushions of pointed leaves with short-stemmed, yellow-eyed fragrant pink flowers in spring and early summer. This dwarf plant from the Alps and Pyrenees is ideal for the alpine house or alpine trough where it will gently spread for many years. ... Learn More

Beautiful, dainty, five-petalled, yellow-eyed, rosy-pink flowers appear in late spring on this rare and delicate cushion plant. Although it is totally frost hardy, it will do best either in tufa, a sheltered rock garden or a pot in the alpine house, where its flowers will retain their perfection. In the wild it is found mainly on alpine grass and rocks in the high peaks of the Massif Central, and more rarely in the Vosges, the Cevennes, the eastern Pyrenees and the Cantabrian Mountains. ... Learn More

One of the very loveliest alpines, often winning prizes at shows, this gem makes tight domes of hairy grey-green leaves, beneath almost stemless sessile white flowers in spring. It is of easy culture in crevices of sandy soil or pot culture in an Alpine house. Very, very few seeds ever collected. ... Learn More

Androsace strigillosa has neat rosettes of small leaves in winter, and much larger leaves in summer. It has upright stems with a loose umbel of a few flowers, white when they are open. But what makes this highly sought after is the reverse of the petals, seen also in bud, which is a deep, dusky pink, outlined with white. It has grown well outside for many years, eventually making a wide clump. A variable species forming loose clumps or hummocks depending on altitude. Central Himalaya (Nepal to Bhutan) above 2500m in light woodland and among scrub, smaller forms higher up in alpine meadows ... Learn More