? know gardens in South and South west England dealing with lack of water and plants to grow in these conditi

Answer 1

Try Beth Chatto's garden. She is one of the most popular of the dry garden pioneers in the area.

www.bethchatto.co.uk/gardens.html

Have you tried doing a "dry garden" search for plants?
The problem with a lot of southern English soil is that it has a tendency to bake hard in the summer and be under water in the winter months. So if you're going for a dry garden you may want to think about raising the soil above normal ground level and adding drainage. Most "dry garden" plants don't like wet soggy feet over the winter.

Hope you have every success.

Answer 2

Allium caeruleum Flowering onion. Attractive spring blue flowering bulb, architectural form, thrives in sandy soil
Echinops ritro Globe thistle. Blue flowers, great for pollinating insects, also for cut flowers
Eryngium alpinum Sea Holly. Spiky grey foliage, very tough on dry soils.
Kniphofia 'Nancy's Red' Red Hot Poker. Very attractive form with orange / amber flowers, repeats through summer if dead-headed regularly.
Perovskia 'Blue Spire' Russian Sage. A real winner, with blue plumes of long lasting flowers and soft grey foliage. A wildlife magnet for the sunny border.
Phormium 'Yellow Wave' New Zealand Flax. Tough evergreen for the border or as a focal point in pots. Handsome, sword-like, variegated foliage lasts all year. Good for exposed places.
Romneya coulteri Tree Poppy. Large white flowers last nearly all summer. Stunning grey foliage.
Stipa gigantea Spanish Oat Grass. Tall blue-foliaged grass, with elegant plumes of long-lasting flower heads which eventually die to leave delicate stems and fantastic seed heads.
Teucrium fruticans Germander. Silver, aromatic foliage with blue flowers. Can be grown as a hedge in a sheltered garden.
Verbena bonariensis Verbena. Tall stems produce clusters of small rosy-purple flowers in late summer and autumn. Short-lived but freely self-seeds for successive years.