BIOME Planting scheme

The BIOME Planting Scheme

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The Gardens

The 'hated' Leyland Cypress The BIOME was divided into 3 main gardens:

  • Exotic Garden
  • Arid Garden
  • Vegetable Garden

One of the aims of the BIOME was to educate and make people aware of the environment and perhaps not be so dissmisive of the role that they can play. Therefore the exhibition incorporated a few key elements to surprise and evoke thought i.e; the choking plants, the Leyland Cypress - as the focal element (a hated plant, but a strong survivor), and the fact that the plantings are sustained in rock wool (due to the rape of peat bogs and contamination of soil).

 


Preliminary Planting List

Exotic Garden

Arid Garden

Vegetable Garden

Ficus Benjamina varigata
Monstera
Strelizia
Ophiopogon varigata
Canna
Phormium (dark purple)
Zantedescia (green godess)
Bamboo
Trachycarpus
Banana
Coleus
Tetrapanax Papifera
Ricuius gibsonii
Ricuius zanzibarensis
Yucca
Datura
Ferns
Palms Cycads
Impatiens New Guinea
Fatsia
Salvia Confertiflora
Climbers

Slate Mulch

Agave
Melianthus major
Ophiopogon nigresceus
Stipa tenuissima
Phormium
Helictotricon
Pony Tail Palm
Carex Frosted Curls
Caradyne
Juncus Spialis

Swiss Chord
Purple Bower

 

Herbs
  • Red Basil
  • Lovage
  • Bronze Fennel
  • Nasturtium
  • Chives
Runner beans
Bananas
Calocasia
Alocasia

 

Our ecosystems are fragile .... this IS the future - BEWARE!


The BIOME-Dome was developed by Darren Rudge & Wayne Pope, City of Wolverhampton College, D.Ponton and Andrew Ball, for the BBC Gardeners World Live 2000, organised by The Royal Horticultural Society