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Vertical planting

Mark Gregory – The Children’s Society Garden

My top tip in a small garden is to basically go vertical. And here we’ve basically used traditional planting, sedums at the top, irrigation, a graduated planting, dry plants at the top going down to ferns at the bottom. It’s something you can do in your own home. This is a favourite of mine this is Euonymus fortunei 'Kewensis', basically a ground cover that will actually grow up vertical surfaces. This plant is Asplenium, the Hart’s Tongue fern, the British native will actually grow in rocks and walls, in hedgerows, it’s evergreen, so the whole wall will give evergreen colour, and the Heuchera ‘Cherry Jubilee’, just to give it some vibrant colour. Looks great.