Aubrieta cultorum

LATIN NAME: Aubrieta x cultorum

COMMON NAME: Aubrieta

The aubrieta spills its small, four-petalled, purple flowers over the low, trailing mats, and the small, grey-green leaves cover the ground beneath them. The low, trailing, mat-forming, evergreen perennial plant carries the small, oval, grey-green leaves and the small, four-petalled, purple, violet or pink flowers in the dense drifts through the mid-spring, one of the fine, bright sights of the rock garden and the wall, drawing the bees. The plant is a fine, historic presence of the old rock garden, and it is a plant of the open, sunny, sharp-draining ground.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The aubrieta is a historic subject of the plant science, and the trailing mats keep showing up in the work on the rock-garden perennials. The way the low, trailing mats of the small, four-petalled, purple flowers spread over the walls and the banks has been examined closely, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the rock-garden perennials, the spring-flowering carpets and the members of the mustard family. The small, grey-green leaves and the mat-forming habit have also made it a fine study plant, and the aubrieta is a regular subject of the work on the trailing mats of the early world.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

The aubrieta is a fine, bright plant of the rock garden and the wall. The small, four-petalled, purple, violet or pink flowers open in the dense drifts through the mid-spring, one of the fine, bright sights of the rock garden, drawing the bees, and the low, trailing mats hold the banks and the walls with the ease. It is one of the fine choices for the rock garden, the wall and the study collection, and it has been written about in the horticultural and the botanical papers for the trailing mats and the early ways. It is a fine, bright plant of the open, sunny, sharp-draining garden.

Give the young plants the sharp-draining soil and the open, sunny spot, and the mats will spread in the first season.

To grow the aubrieta from seed, sow the small, flat seeds just below the surface of the tray of gritty soil, with a light press, keep the tray in a bright, open spot and water gently, then set the young plants out in the open ground or the wall. The seedlings show themselves within a couple of weeks and grow on steadily. With the sun and the sharp-draining ground, the purple mats will spill over the wall through the mid-spring.

Yellow, Peach, Purple, Crimson, Scarlet, White, Blue and Pink.

Aubrieta is one spring flowering perennial that everyone should consider for their garden! These versatile plants are well known for use in rockeries, they can also be used between paving and walls, or create a wonderful foil for spring bulbs