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The Dry Garden

Flowers for a dry garden

Flowers for a dry garden
The Dry Garden

Growing flowers in a dry garden can be a real challenge. Here is a list of drought resistant flowering plants.

Autumn Joy Sedum

Autumn Joy Sedum
The Dry Garden

How to grow and care for this attractive late-bloomer. The perennial ‘Autumn Joy’ Sedum, is a versatile, clump forming herbaceous Stonecrop and well suited to a dry spot in your garden.

Rock Garden Plants

Rock Garden Plants
The Dry Garden

Their is something hugely satisfying and comforting about the sight of miniature, hardy alpines in a rock garden weaving their carpets of colour around well placed stones. Here are some great alpine plants to try.

Sedums – Low maintenance plants

Sedums – Low maintenance plants
The Dry Garden

For low maintenance, easy growers – you can’t beat Sedums. A few ideas for growing these succulent perennial plants.

Sempervivums

Sempervivums
The Dry Garden

There are many plants that are very good at coping with extremes in weather, Sempervivums, also known as Houseleeks or Liveforever are such plants

Retro rockery rockets!

Retro rockery rockets!
The Dry Garden

Don’t turn your back on rockeries – Alpines are used to a hard life as it is!

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