Plant Palette - Theme Gardens

• Plant Palette

Outside areas with native plants to provide food and shelter to wildlife and to improve the biodiversity.

Native plants - examples - plant list:

Trees

Field Maple	Acer campestre
Alder	Alnus glutinosa
Silver Birch	Betula pendula
Hornbeam	Carpinus betulus
Beech	Fagus sylvatica
Ash	Fraxinus excelsior
Wild Cherry	Prunus avium
Pedunculate Oak	Quercus robur
White Willow	Salix alba
Common Whitebeam	Sorbus aria
Rowan   Shrubs	Sorbus aucuparia
Heather	Calluna vulgaris
Bell Heather	Erica cinerea
Petty Whin	Genista anglica
Blackthorn	Prunus spinosa
Field-rose	Rosa arvensis
Burnet Rose	Rosa pimpinellifolia
Raspberry	Rubus idaeus
Eared Willow	Salix aurita
Creeping Willow	Salix repens
Bittersweet	Solanum dulcamara
Gorse	Ulex europaeus
Dwarf Gorse	Ulex minor

Other ides: growing species with eatable fruits as an "Urban Farming"-project with an education purpose.

Eatable plants - examples - plant list:

 Amelanchier laevis, A. lamarcki, A. ovalis                            Juneberry

Sambucus nigra                                                                              Elder

Chaenomeles japonica                                                                Japanese Quince

Aronia melanocarpa ‘Aron’ or ‘Nero’                                    Chokeberry

Prunus avium                                                                                  Wild Cherry

P. cerasifera                                                                                     Cherry plum

P. cistena                                                                                          Dwarf plum

P. spinosa                                                                                         Blackthorn

Malus sylvestris                                                                              Apple

Pyrus communis                                                                               Pear

Rosa arvensis, R. pimpinellifolia                                                   Rose(hip)

Juglans regia                                                                                    Walnut

 

"Biodome" with

-                             --- Tropical/Different Urban Climates and Ecology from around the world

       OR

-                             --- Theme Gardens 

       Existing Project: “Boomkamp Gardens”, NL

          

   Themes are for example:       

      

 water garden

·       Feng Shui garden

 

     ·         remaining ruins garden

 

 modern garden

 ·         nostalgic garden

 colonial garden

 Further gardens like

      sculpture plant garden

   sunken garden

   Hosta and forest garden Waldgarten

   etc.

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