On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 01:10:22 +0100, "[H]omer" wrote:

I have a small area covered in loose 2" pink granite rocks, and I'd like
to know if there's any type of plant (wild or otherwise) which could
grow on it (other than lichen or moss). There is some compacted/stony
soil underneath that is quite acid, and the rocks are about 2 - 3 deep.

Please don't ask why
I *do* have a reason.

Most of the stuff I've found via Google requires limestone or direct
soil contact, which I don't think would work here (unless the plants
seeded underneath the rocks then grew through the cracks).

I'd prefer full cover (kind of like heather) with delicate flowers -
i.e. hide the rocks. No I'm not going to move them

Consider planting the very things that gardening books warn you not to
plant because they are unrestrainable "rampers." Cerastium tomentosum
(snow-in-summer) is one.


BTW, I see you are posting from a .gov address, from which I infer
that you are in the US. This newsgroup is for gardening in the United
Kingdom, and conditions there differ radically from conditions in most
of the US. You might do better asking in rec.gardens.


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