Damp and wet gardens
If your soil is damp most of the time, very wet occasionally or prone to flooding, this selection of plants is ideal for your garden. You may have one particular corner which is damp or if you live in an area with heavy rainfall or poor drainage it might be the whole garden.
Climbers (damp)
215 plants
Containers and pots (damp)
386 plants
Feature plants (damp)
20 plants
Ferns, grasses, hostas and other foliage plants (damp)
244 plants
Flood resilient plants
258 plants
Flowers every year (damp)
834 plants
Ground cover plants (damp)
151 plants
Large trees, 10m+ (damp)
65 plants
Plants for shade (damp)
386 plants
Roses (damp)
130 plants
Structural, trees, hedging and shrubs (damp)
378 plants
All plants (1907)
Rosa rugosa 'Rubra'
Rugosa rose, Ramanas rose, Japanese rose, Turkestan rose, Hedgehog rose
Rosa soulieana
Rambling shrub rose, Soulieana rose
Rosa spinosissima
Spinosissima rose
Rosa Suffolk = 'Kormixal'
Ground cover rose
Rosa Tall Story = 'Dickooky'
Patio rose
Rosa The Prince = 'Ausvelvet'
Shrub rose
Rosa Valentine Heart = 'Dicogle'
Floribunda (cluster-flowered) rose
Rosa virginiana
Shrub rose, Virginia rose
Rosa x alba 'Alba Semiplena'
Alba rose, White rose, White rose of York
Rosa x odorata
Tea rose
Rosa x odorata 'Mutabilis'
China rose, Tea rose
Rosa xanthina 'Canary Bird'
Shrub rose
Rotala indica
Indian toothcup
Rotala rotundifolia 'Green'
Roundleaf toothcup
Rubus 'Benenden'
Flowering bramble
Rubus biflorus
White stemmed bramble
Rubus boysenberry, thornless
Boysenberry
Rubus cockburnianus
Whitewashed bramble, Cockburn's bramble
Rubus cockburnianus 'Goldenvale'
Whitewashed bramble, Cockburn's bramble
Rubus fruticosus 'Loch Ness'
thornless
Rubus fruticosus 'Oregon Thornless'
Parsley leaved bramble
Rubus parviflorus
Thimbleberry, Salmonberry
Rubus thibetanus
Ghost bramble, Tibet bramble
Rubus tricolor
Three coloured bramble
Salix gracilistyla 'Melanostachys'
Black pussy willow, Rosegold pussy willow, Japanese pussy willow
Sambucus nigra 'Aurea'
Golden elder, Common elder, Black elder, Bourtree, European elder
Sambucus nigra 'Aureomarginata'
Common elder, Black elder, Bourtree, European elder
Sambucus nigra f. laciniata
Fern leaved elder, Cut leaved elder, Parsley leaved elder, Common elder, Black elder, Bourtree, European elder
Sambucus nigra f. porphyrophylla 'Guincho Purple'
Purple leaved elder, Common elder, Black elder, Bourtree, European elder
Sambucus racemosa
Red berried elder, Hart's elder, European red elder
Sanguinaria canadensis
Red puccoon, Coonroot, Indian paint
Sanguinaria canadensis 'Plena'
Red puccoon, Coonroot, Indian paint
Sasa palmata
Palmate bamboo
Sasa palmata f. nebulosa
Palmate bamboo
Sasa veitchii
Silver edged sasa, Kuma Zasa, Kuma bamboo grass
Sasaella masamuneana 'Albostriata'
White striped bamboo, White striped shiya-zasa
Sasaella ramosa
Azuma zasa
Sassafras albidum
Ague tree
Saxifraga 'Mount Nachi'
Autumn saxifrage
Saxifraga 'Variegata' (cuneifolia)
Shield leaved saxifrage
Saxifraga 'Variegata' (x urbium)
London pride, St. Patrick's cabbage, Nancy-pretty, None so pretty
Saxifraga fortunei
Autumn saxifrage
Saxifraga umbrosa
London pride
Saxifraga x urbium
London pride, St. Patrick's cabbage, Nancy-pretty, None so pretty
Scopolia carniolica
European scopolia
Scrophularia auriculata 'Variegata'
Variegated water figwort, Water betony, Water figwort
Sinopodophyllum hexandrum
Indian mandrake, Himalayan May apple
Soldanella alpina
Alpine snowbell