Tamarix and driftwood

Worthing, West Sussex.

 

The Waterwise Garden along Worthing seafront. This was set up to illustrate the kind of plants that would grow without being watered, other than by what nature provides. This garden also shows what plants will grow in harsh seaside conditions.

 

These are some of the plants that were used ...

 

Eryngium maritimum (Sea Holly)

Limonium binervosum (Sea Lavender)

Silene uniflora (Sea Campion)

Sedum album (White Stonecrop)

Sedum anglicum (English Stonecrop)

Crambe maritima (Seakale)

Armeria maritima (Thrift)

 

Erigeron 'Sea Breeze'

Verbena rigida

Tamarix ramosissima (Tamarisk)

Tamarix tetrandra

Hebe albicans

Euonymus japonicus

Pittosporum tobira

Griselinia littoralis

Phormium tenax (New Zealand Flax)

Cordyline australis (Cabbage Palm)

Cordyline australis

Eryngium agavifolium

Erysimum 'Bowles Mauve' (Perennial Wallflower)

Done