Our RHS Tatton show garden is going absolutely amazingly and we’re being asked for our planting list by so many people already that we thought we’d make it available to everyone.
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Garden title: 2101
Main sponsor: cactus-direct.co.uk
Garden designer: Michael John McGarr
Contractor/ builder: Warnes McGarr & Co Ltd
Planting list
Yucca Filifera
Yucca Rostrata
Yucca glorisoa
Trithrinax campestris
Nannorrhops ritchiana
Butia odorata
Vitis vinifera muscat
Echinocactus grusonii (600mm wide specimen barrel cacti)
Polaskia Chichipe (1500mm high specimen cacti)
Pinus sylvestris
Alnus glutinosa
Betula nigra
Sanguisorba “tanna”
Iris germanica
Sedum “purple emperor”
Euphorbia characias
Verbena bonariensis
Carex morrowii
Persicaria
Veronicastrum
Primula vialii
Hosta
Thalictrum
Geranium
Geum
Hemerocallis
Lobelia hapsdens blue
Eupatorium baby Joe
Thymus repens
Fixtures and structures in the garden
There are no off-the-shelf structures in the garden, everything has been designed and built by director and landscape designer Robert Warnes.
Corroded steel dome, housing grapevines.
Conical corroded steel structure, housing edible planting.
Pergola – corroded steel frame with thermowood roof slats.
The table and bench sitting under the pergola is made from battered edge sandstone, with a corroded steel frame.
The rugs, cushions and tealight holders have been supplied by Bo Concept Manchester.
The large format porcelain tiles in step formation, were donated by Casa Ceramica.
The drought-tolerant plants were supplied by Rectory Garden Plants in Congleton, the tropical plants are from The Tropical Plant Company and the large cacti are from Cactus Direct.
The fantastic aquaponics system on display in our tent has been brought down by Wigan University Technical College and supplied by Farm Urban.
