Edible Planting for Sustainable Landscape,
Grand Designs Live, 2006
Descriptions are given here of some of the planting used on the sustainable landscape I designed for Grand Designs Live 2006 at ExCel, Docklands, London. The planting was restricted by availability for the show, so I have also included here species I would have used if available (bulleted lists)! These lists are by no means exhaustive and many other plants would have been suitable.
Trees
- Black Walnut - walnuts
- Bird Cherry wild cherries
- Common Birch - sap (ferment for wine!)
- Hazel, common & purple
- Amelanchier - fruit
- Cornus Kousa - fruit
- Elder - berries
- Sweet Chestnut - fruiting cultivars
- Hazel and Filbert - named cultivars
- Fruit trees - peach, plum, apple, pear etc
- Almond
- Pinus - pine seeds (certain species)
Shrubs
- Mahonia - most produce fruit
- Berberis asiatica, darwinii - fruit
- Vaccinium - most produce fruit
- Elaeagnus - most produce fruit
- Cotoneaster franchettii
- Cornus kousa - fruit
- Bamboo - young shoots
- Cornus mas, sanguinea, canadensis (herbaceous) - fruit
- Rubus - blackberry family - fruit
- Rasberries, blackcurrent, redcurrent etc
Herbs
- Fennel - leaves, seeds, teas
- Thymus - cooking
- Rosemary
- Lavender
- Mint
- Etc!
Herbaceous
- Hosta - Stems are edible (cooked)
- Hemerocallis - flowers
- Achillea - herbal teas
- Iris pallida - essential oils
- Catmint - leaves, teas
- Carex elata - roots, seeds
- Rheum - rubarb
- Petasites - flowers and stem
- Echinacea - leaves (medicinal)
