The almost constant enemies of seaside gardening are wind , salt and guts . Frost , however , is neither so drawn-out nor so life-threatening on the coast as it is inland , and seaside gardener have been able to grow many frost - ship’s boat plants in the milder climate of their coastal gardens .
Inland gardeners have small idea how powerful is the effect of coastal wind on the growth of works , and because none or few tree or building deliver a roadblock to moderate its effect during long-winded condition the farting sweep continuously in from the sea . hint stunts and it deforms — one has only to detect the grotesque shape of trees close to the ocean to recognise this .
Salt can kill outright . It is carry in the atomiser , and when the wind catch it , it is often deposited many hundreds of yards inland . Few plant are able-bodied to defy the continual battering of sea wind intemperately charged with salinity , which is heavily sear to plants .
Sand - blast is often too thinly regarded by newcomers to the coast , though its core can be quite as damaging as Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ’s . seacoast gardens suffer badly from its searing effect when the nothingness picks up the sand from a nearby beach . Small seedlings are killed and adult foliage is bruised and blackened .
The only answer to the problem of wind , Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and sand is shelter , and it is not possible to create a worthwhile garden in extremely peril place on the coast without it , though where a garden has protective cover a very wide range of works will thrive which would not succeed in frosty gardens inland . Many plants will grow only when given adequate protection at the outset , and the planting of newly - made garden display to the full ravages of gale off the sea is rarely successful without the aid of some stilted idle words - screen .
Planting of protection belts of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree on a large shell benefits from an open fencing of a two - cake wooden structure interwoven with foliage of gorse or spruce . For small gardens there is nothing better than a fence of wooden laths , 2.5 cm ( 1 in ) wide with spaces of similar size of it , set vertically on a stalwart wooden framework and posts at either conclusion for driving into the ground . Avoid a unanimous barricade such as a paries , which make wind - turbulence on the lee side , since the purpose is always to sink in the nothingness rather than obstruct it .
Plants which allow salt and wind are today very largely selected from those produce in Australia and New Zealand . As a result of long coastline and wide-ranging climatical conditions more successful seaside bush have evolved in Australia and New Zealand than in any other part of the world . Shrubs that successfully resist common salt - spraying are imbed present the sea . These are often equip with toughen leaf such as are found in the genusOlearia . 0 . haastiiand0 . albidastand any amount of piquant wind . Others have glistening leaf surfaces . Euonymus japonicusandGriselinia littoralislook bright and glossy within a few thousand of the sea . Or the leaves of some may be coat with a viscous secernment as inEscallonia macrantha , enabling them to endure a coating of salt . Yet another form of security is yield by a battalion of tiny fuzz which spread over the leaf surfaces of gray - go out and silver medal - will shrub . It is a funny fact that most of these are well adapted to resist the first brunt of a piquant flak . Sea ribwort , Atriplex halimus , Senecio laxifoliusandS. monroi areamong the best we have for striking positions in exposed coastal dominion . If sand - blast is a menace , tamarisk will produce with its radical in pure sand and is also useful for adding height to jolting banks and wall .
shrub for milder maritime arena
Abelia grandiflora
Abutilon megapotamicum
A. vitifolium
Artemisia canescens
Artemisia stelleriana Azara dentata
Artemisia microphylla
Berberis thunbergiiatropurpurea superba
butterfly bush auriculata
Buddleia globosa‘Lemon Ball ’
Buddleia nivea
Calceolaria integrifolia
Callistemon citrinus
Cassia corymbosa
Cassinia fulvida
Cassinia ledifolius
Cassinia leptophylla
Ceanothus ‘ Autumn Blue
Ceanothus impressus
Ceanothus ‘ Indigo ’
Ceanothus rigidus
Ceanothus veitchianus
Centaurea gymnocarpaChoisya ternata
Cistus crispus‘Sunset
Cistus ‘ Paladin Pat ’
Cistus palhinhaii
Cistus purpureus
Cistus skanbergii
Clianthus puniceus
Colquhounia vestitaConvolvulus cneorum
Corokia virgata
Crinodendron hookerianum
Daphne mezereum
Daphne odora
Desfontainea spinosa
Echium fastuosum
Elaeagnus macrophylla
genus Embothrium coccineum
Erica australis
Erica alpina
Erica lusitanicus
Escalloniahybrids
Eucalyptus globulus
Eucalyptus gunnii
Eucalyptus niphophylla
Eucalyptus pauciflora
Eupatorium micranthum
Fabiana imbricata
Fatsia japonica
Fremontia californica
Fuchsias ( large - flowered )
Halimium alyssoides
Halimiumocymoides
Hoheria glabrata
Hoheria sexstylosa
Hebes ( in variety to includeH. hulkeana )
Helichrysum petiolatum
Helichrysum plicatum
Hypericum moserianum tricolor
genus Hypericum ` Rowallane ’
Jasminum polyanthum
Jasminum primulinum
Jovellana violacea
Lavandula stoechas
Lavatera assurgensifolia
Leonotis genus Leonurus
Leptospermum scopariumnichollsii
Leptospermum’Red Damask ’
Lippia citriodora
Muehlenbeckia complexa
Myrtus communis
Myrtus luma
Myrtus ugni
Olearia insignis
Olearia x scilloniensis
Olearia semidentata
Olearia solandri
Paulownia tomentosa
Phlomis fruticosa
Phlomis italica
Phormium tenax
Piptanthus laburnifolius
Pittosporum eugenioides
Pittosporum ralphii P. tobira
Polygala myrtifolia
genus Rosmarinus angustifolius
Rosmarinus‘Corsican Blue ’
Rosmarinus lavendulaceus
Rosmarinus ‘ Majorca Pink
Rosmarinus ‘ Severn Sea
Rosmarinus ‘ Tuscan Blue
Salvia grahamiiinvolucrata bethellii
Sambucus nigrafoliis aureus
Senecio cineraria
Senecio cineraria ‘ White Diamond
Senecio glastifolius
Senecio huntii
Senecio heritieri
Senecio leucostachys
Senecio rotundifolius
genus Solanum crispum
Solanum jasminoides
Teucrium fruticans azureum
Yucca gloriosa
Shrubs for cold maritime field
Amelanchier canadensis
Arbutus unedo
Atriplex canescens
Atriplex halimus
Aucuba japonica
Baccharis patagonica
Berberis aquifolium
Berberis darwinii
Berberis stenophylla
Berberis thunbergiiatropurpurea
