Garden Design - a Prairie Planting
Prairie Plantings are fairly new to UK gardens but are becoming increasingly popular. Defined by the use of grasses and wind/drought tolerant plants they are a good option for large exposed gardens where the tall grasses provide height and movement with a wonderful ability to catch the morning and evening sunlight.
- Costs: mainly plants but in a large garden this can mount up.
- Maintenance: low
- Advantages: require little watering, low maintenance and lovely in low light on summer evenings
- Disadvantages: needs a large area