Some Plants For The Dry Wall...

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29389, 16 December 1960, Page 11

Some Plants For The Dry Wall...

For walls facing the sun there are many succulent plants which are suitable. These include Stonecrops and Houseleeks in considerable variety (Sedum and Sempervivum), Cotyledon, Crassula, and Echeveria, as well as Haworthia, Stapelia, and Gasteria.

Alpine plants which enjoy the sun in this position include many plants which are too rampant for the rock garden, but are too good in flower to dismiss. Spring flowering: Alyssum (Gold Dust)—yellow; Aubretia—mauve; Aethionema —a rosy pink little gem; Iberis—evergreen candytuft; Helianthemum—rock roses in many colours; Phlox subulata—mossy green foliage and pink, mauve or white flowers. Summer flowering: Campanulas in variety—cannot be omitted; Dianthus—-

the pinks; Gypsophila repens —pale pink; Thymes in variety—excellent plants. Autumn flowering: Zauchneria red flowers; Sedum cauticolum—red; Ceratostigma plumbaginoides azure blue. For shaded walls there are many plants which prefer this position. These include: Linaria alpina—bluish and yellow; Lithospermum—deep blue; Erinus alpinus—mauve or red; Mentha requieni—-mint-scented foliage; Mossy saxifrages—white, pink or red; Arenaria balearica—green, bun-shaped; Tiarella cordifolia—creamy-white. There are, of course, many other plants besides this "introductory twenty.” Add to your collections as your knowledge grows.