Aubretia is a fantastic hardy plant that become smothered with comparatively large flowers of blue purple through April and May. It will reach just 5-8 cm tall, but spread up to 60 cm wide. Ideal for gardens pots, as ground cover on sunny banks. Aubretia will thrive in any reasonable, well drained soil, and needs very little maintenance, just cut back hard after flowering for a neat evergreen mound.