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Drought resistant plants for the border

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  • Achilleas are loving the drought as are Echinops and the big Salvias such as Amistad and Super Trouper.  Surprisingly the roses are fine, perhaps because I have been generous with the compost underneath and the mulch on the top. Santolina, Cistus, Kniphofias all good in the dry.
  • borgadrborgadr Posts: 718
    Fire said:
    Californian poppies in various shades. Verbena rigida. Erigeron. I find heucheras pretty hard core. My geranium Rozanne much tougher than I thought - planted in a sandy bed with no water, full sun and it's doing fine.
    In my beds I agree Geranium Rozanne is doing surprisingly well despite other supposedly more drought-resistant plants suffering. 

    Also Canna (though somewhat stunted compared to those in my well-watered pots), polystichum ferns (in contrast to the struggling dryopteris and blechnia), penstemons, senecio, sedum/hylotelephium and achillea.
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