Drought Tolerant Gardening
We think this is critical if we are all to continue gardening successfully in our changing climate but what does it mean? Using plants that are naturally adapted to dryer conditions is a good start but also improving your soil so that is it able to retain more moisture and make nutrients more available to plants is also very important.
We have found these websites to be very interesting and useful:
And the following books make interesting reading:
- Native Grasses for Australian Gardens by Nola Parry and Jocelyn Jones isbn 9781877069420
- Gardening Down Under by Kevin Handreck isbn 0643066772
- Sustainable Gardens by Rob Cross and Roger Spencer isbn 9780643094222
- Growing Your Own Food