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