Laporte Avenue Nursery Fort Collins Colorado Plants for Alpine and Rock Gardens

Over 350 Species of choice and unusual plants for rock and alpine gardens.

Alpine and Rock Garden Plants

 

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Name

Size

Description

Culture

Price

Vania camphyllophila alplains

Vania camphyllophila

(Brassicaceae)

 

2” x 3”

A cute little crucifer with white flowers on dwarf cushions of succulent gray-green linear leaves. Turkey

S-P

 Currently unavailable

 

Veronica armena

(Scrophulariaceae)

Armenian Speedwell

3” x 12”

Bright gentian-blue flowers in early summer atop mats of very soft needle-like foliage that turns a beautiful plum color in fall. Asia Minor, Armenia, on alpine screes and rock ledges.  

S-T

Currently unavailable

IMGP1367

Veronica bombycina ssp. bolkardaghensis

 1” x 6”

Lovely white wooly foliage is enhanced by clusters of china-blue flowers. A treasure! Syria.

S-T

Currently unavailable

 

Veronica erinoides

2” x 12”

Dwarf cushions of scalloped leaves and short spikes of big dark blue flowers in summer. Greece, on rocky slopes

S-T

$5.00

 

Veronica nummalaria

6” x 12”

Large marine blue flowers in summer over dense mats of roundish leaves. Spanish Pyrenees, in dense screes and rock crevices.

S-T

$5.00

 

Veronica surculosa

2” x 18”

Softly hairy gray-green scalloped leaves and cornflower blue, white-eyed flowers in spring to early summer. w Asia, Turkey. 

S-T

 Currently unavailable

 

Veronica oltensis

 1/2” x 12”

 Bright blue flowers completely cover the lacy pinnate-leafed creeping mats in early summer. Quite special! Turkey, at high altitudes on rocky slopes.

S

 Currently unavailable

 

Veronica orsiniana v. orsiniana

 

1” x 12”

Trailing mats with short spikes of large china-blue flowers.   

S

 Currently unavailable

 

Veronica saturejoides

1" x 8"

 Low mat-forming foliage creeps among rocks and in screes carrying bright blue, reddish-eyed flowers in early summer. Balkan peninsula.

S

 Currently unavailable

 

Veronica thessalica

6” x 8”

This veronica has great potential with attractive purple-blue cup-shaped flowers in summer over mats of tiny dark green leaves. 

S

$5.00

IMGP1459

Veronica thymoides v. pseudocinerea

Thymeleaf Veronica

2” x 12”

A low mound of softly hairy silver-green leaves covered with deep blue flowers in early summer. Turkey.  

S

$5.00

Veronica thymoides v. thymoides

Veronica thymoides v. thymoides

1” x 10”

Mat-forming with linear hairy gray-green thyme-like leaves and purple-blue flowers in early summer. Turkey. 

S

 Currently unavailable

 

Viola adunca v. bellidifolia

(Violaceae)

1” x 3”

Mini rosettes of wee heart-shaped leathery leaves are set off in summer by cute purple violets . CO, alpine. 

P-C-T

 Currently unavailable

 

Viola variegata

Variegated Violet

 3” x 6”

Mottled, cyclamen-like leaves and light purple flowers make a charming addition to the shade garden in spring. Siberia and Korea.

S-P

 Currently unavailable

IMGP0027

Vitaliana primuliflora

(Primulaceae)

1” x 8”

Tight cushions of lovely deep green leaves and delightfully fragrant, bright yellow flowers in spring. Bees adore it! Spain, c Europe.

P-F-T

$6.00

IMGP1245

Vitaliana primuliflora v. praetutiana

1” x 8”

 Same as above but the foliage is blue-gray. 

P-F-T

$6.00

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