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Worthing Borough Council
Commerce Way
Lancing
West Sussex
BN15 8TA
- 01273 263134
- parksandforeshore@adur-worthing.gov.uk
West Parade
Worthing
West Sussex
BN11 5EB - Location Map
Area: 800 sq m (0.19 acres)
A new shingle garden has been constructed on the Foreshore at West Parade in Worthing to highlight the need to water conservation during this period of reduced rainfall in the south east of the country.
The garden shows what can be achieved by gardeners using drought tolerant plants, many of which are characteristic of vegetated shingle and exhibit adaptions to conserve scarce water in this extreme environment.
The project has cost £50,000 and is funded by a partnership between Southern Water and Worthing Borough Council's seafront improvement budget.
The following plants (and cultivated varieties of them) have all been used in the garden. Once established, these tough plants can survive hostile, near drought conditions
| Native Coastal Plants | Non-Native Garden Plants | ||
| Eryngium maritimum | (Sea holly) | Erigeron 'Sea Breeze' | |
| Limonium binervosum | (Sea lavender) | Verbena rigida | |
| Silene uniflora | (Sea campion) | Tamarix ramosissima | (Tamarisk) |
| Sedum album | (White stonecrop) | Tamarix tetrandra | |
| Sedum anglicum | (English stonecrop) | Hebe albicans | |
| Crambe maritima | (Seakale) | Euonymus japonicus | |
| Armeria maritima | (Thrift) | Pittosporum tobira | |
| Griselinia littoralis | |||
| Phormium tenax | (New Zealand Flax) | ||
| Cordyline australis | (Cabbage Palm) | ||
| Cordyline australis | |||
| Eryngium tripartitum | |||
| Eryngium agavifolium | Perennial wallflower) | ||
| Erysimum 'Bowles mauve' |
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