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In the garden Dungeness Open Studios

Hardy plants, poppies, shrubs, favoured weeds and herbs growing around our studios on the arid shingle beach in Dungeness.

A view of the progression of a beach garden over the course of the year.

Outside of the annually widespread 'faithful growers': The mighty sea kale, iris, sedum, valerian, vipers bugloss, foxgloves, mosses, broom, gorse, hardy grasses, wild sweetpea and the tiny orchid-like wonders (amongst many others). Plants that succeed in these windy British desert conditions are in general grey-green in colour, furry leafed, salt tolerant, low growing herbs/weeds with some 'surprising and thriving' exceptions...

Poppies, hellebore, mallow, cardoum, sweetpeas, alliums, mullein, nicotiana burley and mutabilis, feverfew, hollyhocks, angelica, thistles, wallflowers, cerinthe, angelica and evening primroses of all types will in our experience grow in abundance.

View recent images of the garden as it progresses by selecting any image from the flash badge below; this will open a new page with a single image, - To the right of the image... select - 'In the garden today set' then choose 'Detail' from the options suggested to view growth through the years in sequence... Or link straight through to the set here: 'In the garden today set'.

We are happy to announce - 'We are now selling hardy young plants from the garden - in the garden'