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Rocky Island bed

polly_appolly_ap Posts: 59
in Garden design
I want to create an island bed in my garden in a mostly sunny position.
it will be an irregular oval shape, and appropriately 5 metres at the widest points.
It will be made with rocks and largish boulders.
I would be grateful for any suggestions for what flowering perennials would be best to populate it.

Thank you

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  • polly_appolly_ap Posts: 59
    Sorry should have read 5 metres by 3 metres at the widest point 😊
  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    Phlox subulata and douglasii. Mossy saxifrages. Silver Saxifrages. Aubrieta, Sempervivums. In other words almost any plants sold as 'alpines'
  • polly_appolly_ap Posts: 59
    Thanks 👍
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    I would go with moderately sized perennials; I'm thinking back to the sorts of things Tom Stuart Smith planted in the rock garden at Chatsworth:
    Persicaria 'White Eastfield'
    Hakonechloa macra
    Astrantia 
    Sesleria nitida
    Erigeron karvinskianus
    Sedum 'Matrona'
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    Chatsworth: a Victorian rock garden reimagined - Gardens Illustrated
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • polly_appolly_ap Posts: 59
    Thank you 👍
  • polly_appolly_ap Posts: 59
    Thanks for the info but please forget about the rocks, they are just to keep the soil away from the adjacent decorative gravel, it isn’t going to be a rockery. I am making a flower bed about 5m x 3m oval. So it would be great if you could suggest perennial flowers for me to plant in the flower bed. Thanks 
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