WATERWISE GARDENING
Our gardens are guzzling between one quarter and one half of all domestic water. With our very dry land, where fresh water is a relative trickle, we need to get waterwise...and fast!
This new and updated edition has many colour photographs, easy to follow text and diagrams so that you can pick up some handy hints, contemplate changes to your garden's layout, or get into the finer points of setting up a tank and using grey water.
Waterwise Gardening sets out six vital principles to create a beautiful garden that not only uses water wisely, but creates a sustainable, low maintenance, fuss-free environment by:
- Reducing areas of lawn
- Grouping plants according to their water needs
- Using dry-tolerant plants
- Maintaining your garden
- Using mulch
- Watering efficiently
It describes more than 200 dry-tolerant plants grouped as Trees, Shrubs, Bulbs, Annuals and Perennials and Climbers and groundcovers.
High, medium and low dry-tolerant plants are also listed for particular soils and uses helping you pick the right plant for your situation.
Using key symbols and illustrated with hundreds of full-colour photographs and easy-to-follow diagrams this edition has been expanded and fully updated.
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