The Alps Garden encompasses most of the small water pools and is contiguous to the Iberian Peninsula garden. Within the lower Alps Garden is The Scree-Moraine Garden, typical of rocky gravely areas below cliffs where freezing and thawing causes the accumulation of sprawled materials. Scree areas are very fast draining and contain little organic matter. They grow in rosettes of varying sizes and send up masses of pink or white flowers on long stems in June. The Miscellaneous Garden has alpine plants from all over the world.
Flowers never open completely, and bumblebees force their way in to pollinate.