Here is the hot dry climate of Geelong, every third garden has them. Although this site is called Alpines and Bulbs, the word bulb has attracted the wider reader. Saxifrages are one of the very popular and attractive alpines grown by plant enthusiasts the world over. Depending on the botanical authority cited, this is a genus of some 480 to 490ish species of both perennials and annuals from the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere and across the equator into South America to Tierra De Fuego and into Asia. In the main they are mat forming evergreen perennials,sometimes referred to as hummock forming.
Some species are also clump forming and are deciduous.
The leaves of Saxifrages usually form a rosette and vary from simple to deeply lobed. Flowers on Saxifrages are five petalled and are solitary or sometimes borne in small to large panicles. If you have a dry stone garden wall, they thrive here tucked into the crevices, growing in full sun to part shade. The Enabling Garden-Published on June 5,1985. Author Diana Pederson.