Diverse Habitats

There are many diferent habitats such as ponds, lawns and hedges where useful plants can be grown. The following leaflets describe some of these:

1. The Edible Lawn (Español ).
2. Edible Ornamental Plants (Español ).
3. The Edible Pond and Bog Garden
4. Edible Shrubs (Español ).
5. The Urban Garden (Español ).
6. Ground cover plants. growing carefully selected plants that can spread to cover the ground and that will out-compete the weeds.
7. Hedges and their use  (Deutsch )
8. Plants for Problem Places North facing walls and deep shade
9. Conservatory Plants
10. The potted garden edible plants for containers and pots.

Our database groups plants into 12 different habitats. You can search it in the UK, the US or Australia. Or look at our Habitats index page.

Database: Habitats

Search the database for plants which can grow in the following habitats. (Numbers of plants in brackets).

• Woodland Garden Plants suitable for a Woodland Garden (4775)
• Canopy Canopy trees (722)
• Secondary Secondary trees (588)
• Sunny Edge Plants which grow in a Sunny Edge (3020)
• Dappled Shade Plants which grow in Dappled Shade (3127)
• Shady Edge Plants which grow in a Shady Edge (1552)
• Deep Shade Plants which grow in Deep Shade (423)
• Cultivated Beds Plants which grow in Cultivated Beds (2999)
• Lawn Plants which can grow in a Lawn (74)
• Meadow Meadow plants (275)
• Hedge Plants which can be used for Hedgeing (475)
• Hedgerow Plants which grow in a Hedgerow (135)
• Pond Pond plants (201)
• Bog Garden Bog Garden plants (564)
• Walls Plants which can grow in or by Walls (703)
• By East Wall Plants which can grow By East Walls (112)
• In East Wall Plants which can grow In East Walls (184)
• By South Wall Plants which can grow By South Walls (427)
• In South Wall Plants which can grow In South Walls (168)
• By West Wall Plants which can grow By West Walls (385)
• In West Wall Plants which can grow In West Walls (190)
• By North Wall Plants which can grow By North Walls (41)
• In North Wall Plants which can grow In North Walls (42)