Beautiful rich purple flowers smother this low45growing evergreen perennial in early spring aubrieta 39axcent deep purple39 has a longer flowering period than most aubretias flowering for up to eight weeks and making a superb compliment to spring flowering bulbs and shrubs with a spreading mat45forming habit aubretia is perfectly at home in rock gardens spilling over sunny banks patio containers or as a ground cover plant in hot dry borders the flowers are also a great sourc