NATIVE TO ROCKY PEAKS seasonally covered in snow, alpine plants shrug off blazing sun, extreme cold, strong wind and poor soil — hardly the cushy conditions found in a home garden.

Alpine rock garden plants Alpine plants thrive in mountainous regions, meaning they like rocks and are usually drought-tolerant. These plants can thrive in rocky soil.

When you think of alpine plants, it might seem like a niche horticultural club, requiring lots of expertise and specialist composts. Certainly, you’ll find a few specimens at botanical gardens ...

Trough-Garden Basics. Ms. Chips has helped keep the alpine-and-trough tradition going strong at the nursery, and in 2018, her passion yielded a book, “Hypertufa Containers: Creating and Planting ...

Alpine plants, fragile and adapted to live in a limited ecosystem, may be the canary in the coal mine of climate change. Alpine plants face a number of threats: Recreation (trampling and disturbance ...

Chandra Thomas Whitfield/CPR News Colin Lee is the Curator of Plant Collections at the Betty Ford Alpine Gardens in Vail, Colo. Pictured Oct. 2022. Consider fall planting ...

I grow plants from anywhere, but garden somewhere. The heart of my somewhere is a pair of raised, slightly sloping beds, heavily gritted and high on lime.

A photo taken at Vail’s Betty Ford Alpine Gardens on Wednesday reflects the peaking of wildflower blooming season there. At 8,200 feet, Betty Ford is the highest botanical garden in North America.