Many xeric plants are not only drought smart and water wise, they have many other unique strategies to help them thrive in less than ideal conditions. Investigate the potential, and find out some incredible facts about these wonderful plants.

You can get the information you need to plan, design and nurture your perfect ecological niche.

Being kind to the environment was never simpler - you can feel the satisfaction of saving the world, one garden at a time, starting with your own.

Browsing through the plants on this website will give you a wealth of beautiful plants to choose from to create your special habitat. Wildlife, birds, butterflies and other insects will visit to feed and raise their families in the beautiful garden you’ve fashioned.

Many gardeners sense a mysterious attraction to drought smart plants. You may feel the pull of their symmetry and simplicity like many others before you, and admire their toughness and resilience in conditions of poor soil, infrequent watering and neglect. Your garden can still look lush and inviting, even when you don’t have time to water and cater to the whims of more fussy plants.

In the Victorian age, many of these gorgeous succulent plants were collected by their avid fans, and then sadly forgotten; now they’ve been re-discovered in this age of dry garden exploration. Begin your exciting journey into the world of xeric gardening.

Here are a few of the plants you’ll find here:

• Sedum

  There are many beautiful varieties to accent your xeric garden. Use them on your green roof to create a haven for butterflies, bees and birds right in your own backyard. They’ll hold your precious soil in place with their tenacious but well behaved growth, and add texture and colour to rockeries, walls, borders and planters.

• Sempervivum

  The vast array of textures and colours will astound you. Use them to make your very own living patchwork quilt - you’ll be constantly amazed as the hues change with the seasons.

• Jovibarba

  These rare and unusual rosette forming plants will satisfy the collector as well as the novice, and add a whole new dimension to your xeric garden.

• Thyme

  The most romantic and free-flowering ground covers to soften your world.

• Echeveria

  An incredible array of blue to grey, pink to mahogany, crinkled, warty, and soft, rubbery textures to delight and fascinate you.

• Haworthia

  Jewel-like textural, spiky, striped leaves, some with windows built into them, some with corky lines as an added attraction.

• Aloe

  Irresistable hummingbird magnets beloved for their spiky but soft leaves with spots, stripes, textured lines and not least for their spires of bell like blooms to attract those tiniest of birds.

• Aeonium

  These rare, unusual, precious gems of darkest purple, palest lime green and every colour in between.

• Crassula

  Many different and jewel like in their infinite form – forget the old jade plant, these are the next generation to grace your planters and containers.

• Tender Succulent Plants

  to enhance your collection, some rare, some old fashioned but new again.

I’m Jacki Cammidge, Certified Horticulturist, and avid xeric gardener. Join me on the adventure of a lifetime in the hunt for exotic, unusual, intriguing and fascinating drought smart plants.

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