SaxifragaDelicate, yet Tough Alpines for Rockeries, Screes and Xeric GardensSaxifraga are another beautiful rosette forming alpine plant that performs well in gritty well drained soil, makes a colony over time and throws out long bloom stalks with white, pink or even a dark red bloom.Known by their common name of Saxifrage, these have long been a collectors favorite. Although technically not a succulent they are used as companion plants to many hardy succulents and other alpines adding a new dimension to trough gardens, crevice gardens and rock gardens. There are many types of Saxifraga, including the encrusted types with their curious lime deposits on the leaves, flowering with tumbling waterfalls of white blooms and the lovely rose shaped pink blooms of Saxifraga arendsii. Based on a simple description, these are usually clustered into guilds, or groups.
These are in many shades of pink, changing as they age. As a companion plant for other alpine plants in trough gardens, planted with some of the other beautiful rare hardy succulents like the miniscule varieties and species of Sedum and the tiny cobweb Sempervivum Saxifraga are exquisite. Combine them in rock walls with Lewisia and Jovibarba to colonize the cracks and crannies between the stones.
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