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

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 ...

Rock garden plants are also low-maintenance, so are the perfect choice if your time is precious and you need something to ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 plant was first introduced into Britain via Kew in 1771. The genus contains about 50 species. Daphne is named for a female figure in Greek mythology and is a gardener’s delight.

Like those, aubretia went out of fashion, but it can still do sterling service today. It’s a winner for planting the top of a wall or a low retaining wall holding back a slope, so the plants ...

Every fall they plant 10,000 to 14,000 bulbs, with 300,000 already in the ever-changing garden. By mid-May, seas of tulips emerge. Daffodils, hyacinths, alyssum, aubretia and candy tuft add to the ...