It grows well in average garden soil but can tolerate poor soil and drought.
Best plants for rock garden zone 8.
An ideal rock garden plant creeping phlox thrives in poor dry soil that drains quickly after rain.
Whether you re a budding gardener or veteran floriculturist there s no shame in wanting to take the easy way out with your backyard foliage that s where these low maintenance shrubs and bushes come in.
In the rock garden the coral bells s striking variegations and pink and purple leaves add a splash of color even when the plant is not in flower.
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List of the best low maintenance plants for a rock garden.
The range of minimum average temperatures for zone 8 is between 10 f and 20 f or 12 2 c and 6 7 c.
In this zone you can put in your vegetable seeds early enough to contemplate successive plantings.
Department of agriculture hardiness zones 4 to 8 need reassurance that they are not doomed to settle for dark dreary dismal and dull.
Sometimes called four season plants they are just that.
These dainty little plants do best in part sun in zones 3 8 and because of their striking foliage should be located in a highly visible location.
The plant can be an aggressive spreader so it s best in a contained area.
Try this with cool season vegetables like carrots peas celery and broccoli.
17 to 12 c.
Purple rockcress aubrieta deltoidea this alpine plant carpets the entire rocky terrain with cute bright pink to purple flowers.
The blooms that this plant produces are star shaped which makes them stand out in most rock gardens.
A flowering perennial yarrow is popular as an edging plant or in a rock garden.
Also known as stonecrop sedum is a great plant to consider for a rock garden.
When you are growing plants in zone 8 you can plant most of the familiar garden vegetables sometimes even twice a year.
20 rock garden plants you can grow in full sun to partial shade.
Plants that look nice in spring summer fall and even winter.
It is a succulent which means that it will not require a lot of water to thrive and it can take the heat of the sun without any issue.
For gardeners in this zone this means more opportunity to add plants with year round interest into the landscape.
Creeping phlox produces carpets of blue purple rose pink or bicolor blooms.
Hardiness zone 7 winter temperatures can dip from 0 to 10 degrees f.
If you are planning to buy a shrub perennial or tree you need to make sure that this new plant will tolerate year round conditions in your area.
All the plants mentioned below are drought tolerant evergreen perennials.
This list of shady but colorful characters should dispel any notion you may harbor that your landscaping is in any way cursed simply because a significant portion of it is not drenched in sunshine all day long.
The plants also have dark needlelike evergreen foliage that remains attractive all year long.
