Use every drop of water to design, grow, and love your water-saving garden.
Truly successful and sustainable gardens depend on one thing: water. Whether you have too much or not enough, water is at the root of your garden, bringing life to plants, the soil, and biodiversity.
But with our changing climate, extreme weather events, and limited resources, how do you make a beautiful, useful, and long-term waterwise garden? Discover how to design a garden that will use water efficiently, work out the water flow in your garden, the key plants to grow for a changing climate, and how planting can be used to soak up excess water.
This is the ultimate guide to dealing with water anywhere you garden. Whether dealing with flash flooding or ongoing summer droughts, creating sustainable drainage solutions or designing a container pond, now is the time to make your garden waterwise.
Tom Massey is a DK author, television presenter, and multi-award-winning garden designer based in London. His first book, RHS Resilient Garden (April 2023 UK TCM 2,975; DK global sales 8,586), has been consistently in the Bookscan top 20 gardening books since it published.
House and Garden magazine named him one of the top 50 garden designers, and he received the Society of Garden Designers award for best small residential garden in 2022. He has received five medals (two gold) from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, the BBC People’s Choice award in 2021, and gold at the Singapore Garden Festival. He was one of the designers on BBC2’s Your Garden Made Perfect (2021 and 2022).
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Use every drop of water to design, grow, and love your water-saving garden.
Truly successful and sustainable gardens depend on one thing: water. Whether you have too much or not enough, water is at the root of your garden, bringing life to plants, the soil, and biodiversity.
But with our changing climate, extreme weather events, and limited resources, how do you make a beautiful, useful, and long-term waterwise garden? Discover how to design a garden that will use water efficiently, work out the water flow in your garden, the key plants to grow for a changing climate, and how planting can be used to soak up excess water.
This is the ultimate guide to dealing with water anywhere you garden. Whether dealing with flash flooding or ongoing summer droughts, creating sustainable drainage solutions or designing a container pond, now is the time to make your garden waterwise.
Author
Tom Massey is a DK author, television presenter, and multi-award-winning garden designer based in London. His first book, RHS Resilient Garden (April 2023 UK TCM 2,975; DK global sales 8,586), has been consistently in the Bookscan top 20 gardening books since it published.
House and Garden magazine named him one of the top 50 garden designers, and he received the Society of Garden Designers award for best small residential garden in 2022. He has received five medals (two gold) from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, the BBC People’s Choice award in 2021, and gold at the Singapore Garden Festival. He was one of the designers on BBC2’s Your Garden Made Perfect (2021 and 2022).
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