Alpine plants are the jewels of the plant world. Beautiful but small, these plants grow best in a habitat that most resembles their native one. Most are at home nestled between rocky crags. No rocky ...

Pots and planters give gardeners the opportunity to explore growing plants where there is no access to garden soil. That may ...

If you can make space for a miniature rock garden — one of tiny plants growing within the confines of a faux-stone trough — the promise of an outsize payoff awaits. Inside the walls of a trough, you ...

A great way to display a collection of small alpines is to plant them in containers which, being slightly raised off the ground, enables the eye to appreciate their exquisite beauty at a closer range.

THERE’S NO BETTER time to create your own tiny, perfect world than when the real world feels like it’s out of control. Unsurprisingly, alpine troughs are having a moment. Designed to look like ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At Denver Botanic Gardens, Wildflower Treasures is neither as splashy as the water-lily pond nor as refined as the Japanese garden. The sun-soaked hardscape ...

Throughout the ages of gardening, as plants were discovered around the world, the highbrow plants – the teeniest, tiniest, most persnickety flora of all, typically from alpine regions – found ...

Where: Betty Ford Alpine Gardens Education Center, Vail. When: Monday, June 5, 11 a.m. Cost: $5 suggested donation. More information: Visit http://www ...