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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.

One of the true stars of our new crevice garden this Turkish native may not be what you expect of a Veronica but certainly is what you expect of a first-rate garden plant. Slowly forms a glossy evergreen mat of tiny cut leaves that conjure up thoughts of ultra-skilled clockmakers or artists who craft on grains of rice. This alone makes it a worthwhile do-er but the all-encompassing eruption of botanical-blue star shaped flowers is the real charmer. These arrive beginning in Spring and are still chugging along, if not at full force, in October at the time of this writing. 

A purple flowering variety of this Asian gesneriad. While the leaves are pretty typical of the family at maturity, the immature leaves are incredibly textured like the interior of corrugated cardboard, or pruned fingers from a overly luxurious bath. Bright purple, tubular, star-shaped flowers somewhere between Nicotiana and Asarum held in small stalked clumps above the rosette.  Prefers a rocky wet but well drained spot akin to its native environment.

Truly a Sea Holly as this Eryngium is a dune plant throughout a good part of Europe. Hard to beat texturama for the dry garden, Mediterranean style or really, any ol' garden as long as you aren't too nice to it. Good drainage in lean soil and you can bask in the splendor of the gray, lightly spiny foliage and the small light purple flower buttons.