Feb 2012 Have you ever thought that those gardens filled with riotous-looking blooms that come from hot countries must be stupidly hard to look after? Gardens with sunny plants just look so tricky. Sunny plants are exotic-looking things: gardens with sunny plants in them, then, must take an age to cultivate and be even harder to keep looking good.

So why do you see gardens with sunny plants in everywhere you go? Where I live, pretty much every other garden’s been planned with sunny plants such as the full range of bedding plants, fat Magnolia, beautiful purple Allium and Delphineum. Tumbling rockeries buttressed with Achillea and Agave. Strawberry trees nodding heads at Birch and Sumac.

I asked the guy next door why his garden had been done with sunny plants. Well, he said, gardens with sunny plants look great: and gardens with sunny plants are easy. That’s right – easy. Gardens with sunny plants can save you time, money and as much horticultural misery as you please.

Setting and and preparing a garden with sunny plants may take some trouble but once established they really only need sun. In the planning stage imagine the ground covered with low growing mesembryanthemum, graduating up with pelegonium, and interjected with spikes of delphinium, phlox, and day-lily. For a more dramatic effect choose cacti with spikes such as Aloe Vera and Agave Utahensis dotted about or even Cleistocactus Strausii (Silver Torch) as a centre piece.

The whole point of a gardens with sunny plants is that they don’t need much water and they don’t need a lot of care other than the correct positioning of the plants when you’re bedding them in. Tubs and containers are ideal for sunny plants because the conditions are tailor made to provide the right environment in which they flourish. These days a lot of our summers are officially decreed droughts, which means water is rationed and gardens that don’t have sunny plants in them suffer from dehydration: gardens with sunny plants don’t need so much liquid in the first place so if you have a garden with sunny plants in it you’re less likely to spend August looking at a dead yard.

Also, gardens with sunny plants can promote clever uses of grass-replacing shrubs, tubs and flowers: when you plan gardens with sunny plants in them you can remove the thirsty lawn altogether and replace it with a ground covering shrub. While everyone else barbecues in their own personal dustbowl, you can be cooking out in gardens brimming with sunny plants!

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