The Project Giving Back Garden

The Project Giving Back Garden

About this garden

Designed by James Basson of Provence-based Scape Design, the Project Giving Back Garden offers a dramatic landscape with towering red sandstone cliffs coloured by natural ochre pigment sitting among pine woodland. The planting is resilient and suited to the warm climate of southern France.

Plant List62

Trees & Shrubs

Acer monspessulanum

Montpelier maple

Ligustrum vulgare

Wild privet

Pinus sylvestris

Scots pine

Pyrus pyraster

European wild pear

Rosa arvensis

Field rose

Rosa spinosissima

Burnet rose

Herbaceous & Evergreen Perennials

Anthericum liliago

St Bernard's lily

Anthericum ramosum

Branched St Bernard's lily

Arabis alpina subsp. caucasica

Mountain rock cress

Asphodelus ramosus

Branching asphodel

Bellis perennis

Daisy

Calluna vulgaris

Heather

Catananche caerulea

Cupid's dart

Cistus 'Alan Fradd'

Rock rose 'Alan Fradd'

Cistus salviifolius

Sage-leaved rockrose

Clematis vitalba

Wild clematis

Clematis x aromatica Flammula-Recta Group

Clematis aromatica

Daucus carota 'Dara'

Queen Anne's lace 'Dara'

Dianthus armeria

Deptford pink

Dianthus deltoides

Maiden pink

Eryngium venustum

Mexican sea holly

Eupatorium cannabinum

Hemp agrimony

Galium verum

Lady's bedstraw

Genista pilosa 'Procumbens'

Creeping broom

Gladiolus italicus

Field gladiolus

Helianthemum nummularium

Common rockrose

Hypericum perforatum

Perforate St John's wort

Isatis tinctoria

Woad

Jasione montana

Sheep's bit

Linaria vulgaris

Common toadflax

Linum perenne

Blue flax

Grasses & Annuals

Brachypodium retusum

Mediterranean false brome

Carex pendula

Pendulous sedge

Carex remota

Remote sedge

Carex sylvatica

Wood sedge

Corynephorus canescens

Grey hair grass

Dactylis glomerata

Cock's foot

Draba aizoides

Yellow whitlow grass

Festuca rubra

Creeping red fescue

Helictotrichon sempervirens

Blue oat grass

Helictotrichon sempervirens 'Pendula'

Blue oat grass 'Pendula'

Juncus effusus

Common rush

Juncus inflexus

Hard rush

Lathyrus nervosus

Lord Anson's blue pea

Luzula campestris

Field wood-rush

Luzula sylvatica

Great wood-rush

Phleum bertolonii

Smaller cat's tail

Plantago lanceolata

Ribwort plantain

Poa cita

Silver tussock

Scirpoides holoschoenus

Round-headed club-rush

Herbs & Aromatics

Helichrysum italicum

Curry plant

Lavandula latifolia

Spike lavender

Mentha cervina

Water spearmint

Salvia rosmarinus

Rosemary

Teucrium chamaedrys

Wall germander

Thymus vulgaris

Common thyme

Ferns & Shade Loving Plants

Asplenium trichomanes

Maidenhair spleenwort fern

Hedera helix

Common English ivy

Helleborus foetidus

Stinking hellebore

Polypodium cambricum 'Oakleyae'

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