Plants:

Dry Shade

All growing at the back of the garden, between a holly hedge and conifer hedge, shaded by a pear tree and sycamore) It doesn’t get drier. A hole might be darker.

alchemilla mollis – grows anywhere, surprisngly pretty with raindrops caught on it’s leaves
aquilegia vulgaris – elegant flowers
aster Gertrude Jekyll (white) & Monch (purple)
brunnera macrophylla (Jack Frost) – cheerful blue flowers in the spring & lovely leaves through the summer
Clematis montana var. rubens – climbing up my conifers
corydalis – shouldn’t work but it does
cyclamen hederifolium – cheer me up everyAutumn
cyclamen coum – and then in the spring

digitalis purpurea – native purple foxglove is the toughest
epimedium versicolor (sulphureum) – lovely green leaves spreading everywhere, small yellow flowers
euphorbia amygloides var robbiae – a thug, growing under my conifers and holly, which is useful but needs the rooters weeded out every Spring

gallium odoratum – for the really dry bits between the conifers and the hedge
geranium maccrorhizum (bevans & spessart) – lovely later spring, early summer flowers
helleborus (Ushaba) – providing you give them some water through the summer, these cope well

liriope muscari (big blue) – useful foliage
lonicera henryi – honeysuckle scrambling up the confiers
fern: asplenium scolopendrium (cristatum & muricata) – stuck in a very dry, shady wall
fern: polystichum aculeatum – evergreen
fern: dryopteris cristata – I have these in the ground and in pots around the garden. Lovely structural plants

Dry Sun

Alpines

All growing on my garage roof, watered very infrequently

aster ericoides prostratus – lovely flowers & spreading habit
anemone appenina Petrovac – sping flowers inbetween the stones under the holly

aubrieta macedonia – falling over the edge of the trough
campanula x pulloides – lovely blue flowers
cyclamen coum – beautiful fuschia pink flowers in the winter
dianthus Gold Fleck & Whatfield magenta – lovely intense colours
dodecatheon pulchellum Red Wings – very like cyclamen flowers but late spring/early summer
draba rigida var imbricata compacta
erodium x variabile Bishops Form – again, bright pink flowers
genista pilosa – bright yellow flowers, spreading slowly
gentiana acaulis – blue sping flowers
geranium sanguineum striatum Splendens – pink, invasive thug
leucojm autumnale – like autumn snowdrops
narcissus “tom thumb” – very cheerful in the spring
osteospermum Irish – long lasting pink flowers
phlox douglasii Crackerjack – pink & spreading
pulsatilla vulgaris – purple easter flower
satureja spicigera – white flows on a small spreading shrub
saxifraga Sofia – bright yellow flowers, v slow to grow
sedum cauticola – beautiful autumn foliage
sedum sediforme – indestructible, loose mat with yellow flowers in the summer
sedum sexangulare – spreading mats with bright yellow flowers
tulipa saxatalis & sylvestris – will come back year after year

Other beds (all under hedges):

allium sphaerocephalon
alyssum
cistus pulverulentus Sunset: A pink rock rose
erysismum Bowles Mauve – perrennial wallflower
geranium rozanne – beautiful blue, lasts forever
lavendula augustifolia hidcote – a beautiful hedge, dry as a bone with allium spiking though
lysimachia nummularia Aurea- creeping jenny, a great useful thug with beuatiful yellow flowers spilling over my walls

perovskia (blue Spire) – gradually planning to replace the lavender with this and cycle around every 4-5 years
rudbeckia fulgida
sedum herbstfreude
triteleia Corrina A blue grass nut plant for June/July
viola odorata – one smells beautifully, the other is a thug. I have the thug
lychnis coronaria – campion, cannot be killed no matter how hard you try