WITH brilliant blooms and a lust for life, the humble aubrieta will light up walls and patios in spring. By Alan Titchmarsh 00:01, Sat, Mar 21, 2015 | UPDATED: 13:13, Mon, Mar 23, 2015 ...

If you want hanging plants that last for a long time, opt for evergreen plants like aubrieta and creeping Jenny. These ...

It is aubrieta, a plant that used to be very popular on rockeries but, like them, has fallen from favour. It is a shame. Few flowers perform with such generosity, or are so good at attracting bees.

Perhaps aubretia (or aubrieta), which could easily be described as a quintessential rockery plant, was once more popular and has fallen out of favour in the same way rockeries themselves are no ...

GARDENING GERRY DALY THE daffodils and yellow flowers of forsythia ensure that yellow is the dominant colour in gardens at this time of year and that makes the contrasting colour of purple ...

Probably Britain’s most widely grown rockery plant, Aubrieta is also one of the prettiest and most versatile. From spring until early summer, the leaves are almost completely hidden by massed ...

What perennial flowers would you suggest to plant so I can have color all spring, ... rock cress (Arabis and Aubretia), and candytuft (Iberis sempervirens). All three are spreading ground covers.

Together with arabis and aquilegias, hollyhocks and lavender, pot marigolds and wallflowers, godetia, clarkia and love-in-a-mist, aubrieta is a plant of cottage gardens, of childhood memories that ...

THE purple splashes of aubrieta are exceptionally good this year. Trailing down stone walls and over rockeries, the colour of its broad mats is very vivid and makes a great contrast with the ...