
This short video (2 mins 20 secs) shows you how to create a raised rockery bed from scratch.
This video shows:
- Nailing together some thick planks to make the raised bed.
- Filling with soil.
- Shaping the soil surface.
- Splitting a rock and placing it to make the rockery.
- Planting the alpines (rock plants).
- Finishing with gravel.
If you want raised bed kits, please see the bottom of this page.
What plants to use in a small raised alpine rockery bed:
These plants would be suitable and wouldn’t take over:
- Aquilegia flabellata var. pumila
- Arabis blepharophylla Spring Charm
- Common Centaury
- Draba aizoides
- Leontopodium alpinum
- Leontopodium alpinum Mignon
- Lewisia nevadensis
- Limonium bellidifolium
- Papaver alpinum
- Papaver miyabeanum
- Primula auricula
- Saxifraga aizoides var. atrorubens
- Saxifraga Hardii
- Saxifraga oppositifolia Splendens
- Saxifraga × apiculata
- Scutellaria indica var. japonica
- Scutellaria pontica
- Sempervivum arachnoideum
- Sempervivum arachnoideum Rubrum
- Sempervivum arachnoideum tomentosum
- Sempervivum Black Beauty
- Sempervivum Blood Tip
- Sempervivum Blue Boy
- Sempervivum Bronco
- Sempervivum Brown Owl
- Sempervivum calcareum
- Sempervivum calcareum Mrs Giuseppi
- Sempervivum Commander Hay
- Sempervivum Heigham Red
- Sempervivum Jovibarba allionii
- Sempervivum King George
- Sempervivum Pekinese
- Sempervivum Sir William Lawrence
- Silene acaulis Mount Snowdon

Here are some kits for making raised beds:
Botanico Let’s Grow Wooden Raised Bed
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Spear & Jackson 1250 x 185mm Raised Bed
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Wooden Raised Border For Flower Bed Or Vegetable & Herb Growing 1 Metre Square
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Selections GF9435 Veg Trough Large Wooden Raised Vegetable Bed Planter
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[1] These are Amazon affiliate links.
This means I will get a fraction of the cost if you purchase it.