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Perseus had to best a sea monster to get his Andromeda, and Sue had to cart hers all the way from Vermont for us to offer them. Meanwhile all you have to do is shell out a few measly shekels to get yours, modern-folk and their convenience economy I guess... Anyway it's easy to see why Sue was so attached and why this sole member of the genus was bestowed the name of a legendary Greek beauty. Slender glaucous leaves that lend it the more mundane name of bog rosemary form an elegant evergreen mound worthy of a spot even without flowers. Flushed pink lantern flowers which mark the plant as Ericaceae (and at their best can almost entirely cover the plant) are deserving of a detour on your winged flight aboard Pegasus. Likes moist to wet feet and needs a cool summer climate to thrive but will tough out even the coldest winters.

Our crevice garden excites a lot of visitors into experimenting with alpines and crevice planters, if you find yourself with a similar urge we highly recommend this as one of your gateway plants. Offering what's best about alpines, diminutively cute little plants with outsize floral firepower, but without a lot of the hassle and strife that cultivating them can bring. While they still want excellent drainage and fairly goldilocks temperatures they are much more forgiving than many others. When happy they will spread to form a nice mat, and a sea of pink pom-pom flowerheads.

Sometimes simple is best, shocking coming from this bastion of maximalism and specialization we know, but its hard not to love an approachable friendly face in an intimidating crowd. This species is that friendly face for the at-times daunting world of alpine and rock gardening, adaptable and charismatic with it's primula-like flowers. This little Euro delicacy comes from the legendary Aberconwy nursery, one of two selections bred to combine the compact habit of the white-flowered 'Doksa' with the usual bright pink form. This one favors saturation of color over extreme dwarfness but is still quite compact. A little specialist and a lot cute, a welcome addition for the beginner and the erudite expert.

We are excited to offer this formerly European-only delicacy out of the legendary Aberconwy nursery. Part of a breeding program to combine the compact form of 'Doksa' with the typical pink flowers of the species this was the most compact of the bunch. A perfectly exotic showplant for the Alpine enthusiast or an adorable and adaptable rock garden adornment for the avid gardener. 

A. villosa is widely grown in the rock garden world and widely distributed in the world at large. This variety however is something a little more uncommon, and with the distinction amidst other varieties of being stoloniferous, reaching out red hairy tendrils tipped by a colonial rosette produced by the mothership. This sort of imperial behavior is rightly shunned in modern geopolitics, but quite welcome in the garden. This is particularly true when each silver fuzzy rosette which composes the expanding territorial mat produces it profusion of hot pink, yellow-eyed flowers. A great beginner rock or crevice garden plant which is easily shared or divided and spread around.