Plant selections when building rock gardens. A database is linked to for rock garden plant suggestions.

My selection of rock-garden plants was driven by color scheme. But the use of color schemes when selecting rock-garden plants differs markedly from their use in, say, painting.

Know the sun and soil requirements for growing the particular rock garden plants you'd like to grow. Plants in rock gardens need the soil prepared properly and need the right amount of sun.

Rock garden plants.

These rock garden plants keep to a similar texture.

Ideas for deer-resistant rock gardens. These plants are both deer-resistant and drought-tolerant.

Rock garden design for the beginner. Description of basic rock garden design to help you make landscape decisions.

Problem areas call for landscape solutions, including rock garden design. Rock gardens can be an attractive, practical landscape solution where more common landscaping designs fail.

Deer-Proof Plants for Rock Gardens

Landscaping with rock, including Zen, Japanese and backyard water gardens. Plants to use in rock gardening include moss, ferns, succulents, lichens and euphorbias.