LEWISIA COTYLEDON: Alpine

I don't know what set me off but I suddenly decided I wanted alpines in my garden.  Perhaps it was all the rock I keep finding every time I stick a fork or a trowel into my soil.  At a depth of just a few inches, sometimes I'm lucky and it's several inches, I usually find some sandstone and I think it's a legacy from years gone by when, perhaps, the area where I live was farmland.  I suspect that there might have been a dry-stone sandstone wall and it was levelled by builders and an amount, not much, of soil spread over the top.  Anyway, that is what I have to deal with when gardening and it has slowed down my garden progress somewhat.   I used to grow alpines years ago when I had a big garden with small dry-stone walls.  To liven up the walls I would stick alpines into the cracks and crevices in the wall and the plants would just get on with it.  Rarely did one die, often did they manage to reproduce themselves somewhere else along the wall; never were they a nuisance.  When I was at the local garden centre the other day I saw this wonderful little alpine that I had never seen before: Lewisia.  I had to have it.  I think you'll understand why.  Just look at the colour range.



Lewisia Cotyledon, Special Mix



Lewisia Cotyledon, Special Mix

The label says this: 

This beautiful alpine is prized for its spring and summer show of mixed bicolour flowers, each touched with a warm glow.  Perfect in the rock garden, along a gravel path or in stone wall crevices.  Height 20cm (8in) x Spread 20cm (8in).  Requires: Full sun or partial shade in well drained soil.

I would like to grow mine in a pretty terracotta pot surrounded by small gravel.  A sink filled with alpines would be nice but, honestly, I don't really have the space.