Garden ideas: How to create the perfect shingle dry garden

Our increasingly dry summers are great for beach-goers, but they cause havoc across the country for gardeners. Creating a dry garden with plants for dry climates is a low maintenance option.

As a garden / planting designer who also builds landscaping projects, and living in close proximity to Beth Chatto who developed the first shingle dry garden ideas on their old carpark site, I've been very mindful to include them where possible in Hortus Pink projects.

This is for two reasons, firstly they utilise locally sourced pea shingle which is widely available throughout Essex and Suffolk; but also secondly they are really beautiful and can offer a diverse opportunity for a low maintenance garden ideas.