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Eragrostis curvula Erianthus ravennae Stipa gigantea (Giant Grass) The Dry Garden Stipa tenuissima Selected List Bulbs, corms & rhizomes

All ium christophii ‘aurea-variegata’ ‘Gladiator’ bowdenii The purpose of the Dry Garden is to investigate a Crocosmia x crocosmiflora Tulipa ‘Apricot Beauty’ (single ‘Ember Glow’ early) model of sustainable horticulture, suitable for use in a Tulipa ‘Maureen’ (single late) typical Cambridge garden, focusing on reducing the Iris ‘Lady Friend’ Tulipa ‘Norman Villis’ (single early) need for irrigation through design, cultivation Tulipa tarda Iris ‘Son of Star’ techniques and selection of drought-resistant .

Horticultural tips for a dry garden: Cambridge is amongst the driest regions in Western Europe, north of the Pyrenees with an average rainfall • Don’t worry if your lawn is parched and brown in the summer and resist the urge to water it from the mains of 557mm per year. Water is therefore a limited supply—your lawn will recover when the rain eventually resource and too precious to be used liberally to comes. irrigate gardens. • When choosing plants for a dry garden, look for grey– leaved, waxy-leaved or aromatic plants, which are The plants in the Dry Garden here were selected indications of good adaptation to drought conditions because they have shown a degree of tolerance of the • BeddingMulch a plants dry garden (subject in tospring change) with bark chips or coco dry Cambridge climate. They were not watered in shells to conserve moisture in the ground. If you mulch when planted, and have received no artificial watering Arctotiswith rich hirsuta organic matter, theOsteospermum plants will put cultivars on fa st, lush Argyranthemumgrowth which ochroleucum will be more susceptibleSalvia farinacea to drought ‘Blue Victory’ during their life in the Dry Garden. The plant list

Argyranthemumdamage. coronpifolium ‘White Victory’ inside highlights just some of the plants that have cultivars been used. Gazania cultivars The development of the Dry Garden was kindly

© © Cambridge University Botanic Garden 2002 sponsored by the Cambridge Water Company.. The Dry Garden Trees & Shrubs x media ‘Winter Sun’ Selected Plant List Berberis thungbergii ‘Helmond Phlomis chrysophylla Pillar’ (New Zealand Herbaceous Perennials (common ) box) ‘Nana’ ‘Snowflake’ Phormium tenax ‘Yellow Wave’ pallidus ‘Marie Simon’ Calamintha nepeta (catmint) Nepeta racemosa ‘Walker’s Low’ ‘Diabolo’ Ceratostigma plumbaginoides Caryopteris x clandonensis ‘Arthur subsp. glauca Potentilla fruticosa ‘Daydawn’ Simmonds’ ‘Erica Robin’ Ceratostigma willlmottianum Potentilla fruticosa ‘Snowflake’ Dahlia ‘Ella Britton’ Oenothera stricta Convolovulus cneorum Potenitlla fruticosa ‘Primrose Dryopteris filix-mas (Male Fern) Beauty’ Eryngium amethystinum ‘Herrenhausen’ Erica terminalis ‘Clarice Phlomis russelliana fortunei ‘Emerald ’n’ Rosmarinus officinalis ‘Pyramidalis’ Howard’ Phygelius x rectus ‘Winchester Gold’ (Common ) Fanfare’ Rosmarinus officinalis ‘Tuscan Geranium ‘Brookside’ Salvia sylvestris ‘Snowhill’ lydia Blue’ (Common Rosemary) Geranium ‘Ann Folkard’ Sed um aizoon subsp. Hebe pinguifolia Rosmarinus officinialis var. kamtschaticum prostratus (Prostrate Rosemary) (Yellow Horned Hebe ‘youngii’ Poppy) ‘Bertram Anderson’ ‘Arborescens’ Santolina chamecyparissus Glaucium leiocarpum Sedum spectabile ‘Autumn Joy’ Hippophaë rhamnoides (Sea Santolina pinnata ‘Sulphurea’ ‘Pink Beauty’ Sedum spectabile ‘Iceberg’ Buckthorn) Senecio laxifolius Hypericum lancasteri Tamarix pentandra ‘Compacta plena’

‘Hidcote’ (English Lavender) Yucca filamentosa ‘Golden Evergreen or semi-evergreen perennials Lonicera nitida ‘Silver Beauty’ Sword’

Bergenia x spathulata ‘Baby Doll’ Hedging Plants Bergenia x smithii ‘ Sunningdale’ Kniphophia caulescens (Red Hot (Hornbeam) (Yew) Poker) subsp. (Beech) ‘Atrovirens’ (Western wulfenii ‘Bosahan’ Red Cedar) ‘Nigrescens’ Euphorbia characias subsp. ‘Argentovariegata’ wulfenii ‘Humpty Dumpty’ Please turn over…./