General Alpines

general alpine plant comments/questions here!

Made the rock garden, now what should I grow?

Hi, this is my first post, so hope it doesn't sound too naff.
I have just 'finished' construction of my first rock garden. I've been growing plants for years with only moderate success, but now I have come to live in central-western France (Poitou-Charentes) from wet and cold Belfast. Here I have a large but fairly flat garden. It is atop a limestone hill and my rock garden is about 20ft by 6 ft with a drop of about 18".

Hypericum olympicum

This is a plant that I am very fond of but, so far, haven't grown in my garden. In Victoria, BC, there used to be a swath of it at our back door and I often wish, when we moved east, that I had brought a piece of it. However, at that time, unfortunately, I wasn't much into gardening. Can anyone tell me if it is a weedy plant? Reason is that about 10 seed pots planted last spring are presently sporting healthy looking leaves of, what to me, with those opposite leaves, look like those of H. olympicum.

Pages