Desert Wash

The Desert Wash is bordered on its south side by the Cornfield and to the north by the Californian Border. Here many good Ceanothus and other Californians reside including a few interlopers that lend the right feel.

The Desert Wash resembles an Arizonian landscape made with Norfolk flint stones and is home to an astounding collection of drought tolerant, semi-tender plants that surprise and delight. Too many to mention individually but Puyas, bromeliads from South America, Agaves and Aloes from Africa and the Americas jostle for space here. This collection is added to annually and nothing is wrapped against the ravages of winter, plants have to take their chance but with excellent drainage to prevent water lying around their roots, they cope.

To the south lies the Cornfield that contains a selection of the cornfield weeds of yesteryear before the invention of selective herbicides. Poppies, Corn Marigolds, Cornflowers and Corn Camomile regenerate annually, to these we add some ‘extras’ to prolong the season, both early and late.