Alpine Garden Shining Bright

I am happy to see that the perennials in the alpine garden are creeping around as I had hoped, and are putting forth bright flowers to create a quilt of color. The only problem with the garden is the excess of weeds! Since this bed is new and used poor soil from around the yard, it contains a lot of weed seeds. I follow one rule when weeds go bad and I don't have too much time: at least try to pull them before they flower and set seed.
I keep a border of bare soil just inside the rock wall so that I can walk around the bed and access the plants:

Pink flowers of Lewisia (top) and cobweb hens and chicks (bottom) as well as a mauve Scabiosa and white Dianthus microlepsis:

Veronica armena in bloom:

I need to get out in some good lighting to get better pictures of this garden, since that bright light does not do justice to the colors. However, there is no ideal lighting that will fix that weed problem...

By the way, did you see the CBC article about the University of Toronto professor's report that argues that "grow local, eat local" may not always be environmentally sound? I just think of growing food up here and this becomes clear. Sure, Vancouver could grow lots of tasty stuff outdoors without special equipment so that its folks could have a 100-mile diet. Growing enough produce up here would have to involve heated facilities to extend the growing season, using electricity generated in this province by coal or natural gas, (and some hydroelectric and wind facilities). There's a reason why we don't get our lettuce and strawberries from Yellowknife!