Marilyn Coyle asked 16 years ago
We have been working on a rockery in our garden and to prevent soil from drifting down onto the rockery from above we thought a line of evergreen shrubs would be ideal. Could you suggest a low growing shrub which doesn’t need pruning for this area. It is a place that receives full sun. We would prefer something low growing because we don’t want to block the view of the upper garden which is small. Marilyn and James
1 Answers
Gerry Daly Staff answered 6 years ago
A line of the same shrub might not look so great by a rockery because it would tend to dominate and appear too rigid.
Try a mixture of small shrubs that associate well with a rock garden in a sunny position, such as lavender, rock rose, small cistus, halimium, genista and purple sage.
