Originally planted as a nod to Beth Chatto’s famous Gravel Garden (a world-renowned dry garden created in 1991 on a former car park in Essex), with drought-tolerant plants such as Acanthus (a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants in the Acanthaceae family, native to tropical and warm temperate regions), Echinops (a genus of about 130 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, commonly known as globe thistles), and Phlomis (a genus of over 100 species of herbaceous plants, subshrubs and shrubs in the mint family).
Our gravel garden has recently been revamped, and thuggish plants that had taken over have been removed and replaced with interesting varieties that are ideal for cutting and drying.
