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Thursday 1 December 2011

Permaculture advices: salt tolerant plants


  • Acer pseudoplatanus, Sycamore, hedging
  • Pines, edges
  • Salix caprea, Goat willow, edges
  • Sorbus aria and intermedia, firewood crop and berries
  • Tamarisk, tamarix gallica, hedging
  • Holm oak, quercus ilex, hedging and nuts
  • Seabeach sandwort, erosion resistance
  • Sea plantain, erosion resistance
  • Blackthon, edible fruit and edges
  • Broom, cytisus scoparius, nitrogen fixer
Edible salt-tolerant plants:
  • Sea beet, beat vulgaris, edible veg
  • Hottentot fig, Caprobrotus edulis, edible
  • Colcheria officinalis, scurvy grass, edible
  • Sea kale, crambe maritima, cabbage substitute
  • Hawthorn, edible leaves and fruits
  • Rock samphire, Crithmum maritimum, delicious edible
  • Sea holly, eryngium maritimum
  • Sea milkwot
  • Sea purslane
  • Sea buckthorn
  • Iceplant, mesenbryanthemum crystalinum
  • Marsh samphire, salicornia
  • Sedum album, edible
  • Milk thistle, silybum marianum, salad or herb
  • Alexanders, smyrnium olustratum, edible herb
  • Saltbrush, Atriplex
  • Seablite, suaeda linearis maritima
More species to be added in soon. Some non-edible ornamental species also include lantana, coleus, kalanchoe, hemerocallis (daylilies), opuntia, portulaca, jasminum floridum and bougainnvillea.

The following video from eattheweeds.com features seablite, a common salt tolerant plant with edible leaves: