With drought conditions threatening the typical English garden, do we need to rethink our planting plans for 2023?
From an article by Tim Sykes written in the So Magazine, September 2022
It’s a scary thought looking at that beautiful garden of ours, in the full knowledge that not all our plants will have survived the summer. I dare say all Tunbridge Wells residents have, or are witnessing similar anxieties.
Those who have had the foresight to fit rainwater fed, or low pressure leaky pipe systems to their gardens will fair better. Those that have planted their gardens with more draught tolerant plants may see very limited failures.
Hearsay and the media suggests we are witnessing significant changes in our climate and this more polarised weather pattern is here to stay. I was talking to a friend at the weekend who lives in Stockholm and she was recounting the days in her childhood when it was almost guaranteed they would get plenty of snow throughout the winter. Not so any more. This year we have seen forest fires throughout Europe, and serious flooding in Australia, so something must be happening!
Here in the UK having suffered a low water table from a mild winter and an excessively prolonged hot summer, it’s not surprising we now have a temporary hosepipe ban.
Is it time to reassess the planting options and how we irrigate our gardens?
Smart developers and architects should be encouraged to incorporate rain water and recycled water based systems into house designs so gardens can be fed off tanked solutions rather than the mains.
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