Halophytes - the answer to drought?
Sally discusses some of the ultimate drought resistant plants that you could grow in your gardens. They are halophytes that you find growing on shingle at the coast
As an ecologist, I love exploring salt marshes and shingle banks where conditions are truly extreme for plant and animal alike. Its here that you find sea kale, thrift, yellow horned-poppy, sea lavender, sea pea, sea campion, sea blight and other plants that can cope with the high levels of salt. They are classed as halophytes.
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