Suggestions for drought-proof your garden
With these great systems that will make your garden look healthy and lush all summer - you can be so easy to do
Keep your garden green and beautiful throughout the summer can be difficult, but if you carefully choose the plants, you will not have hanging over them when the weather is hot do. Follow our four top tips for a lush summer garden:
Select bathers
A strategy of drought-hit is to use a lotThe plants that come from warm climate and Mediterranean. They have adapted to conditions with little water and can create a dramatic look.
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Succulents such as agave, Echeveria and Aeonium.
Plants that have hairy leaves or silver-gray, as Stachys (lamb's ears), Russian sage, straw flowers.
Spiky-leaved plants such as thistle or Eryngium
Hardy Mediterranean like purple allium, French or Spanish lavender, rosemary, thyme and sage.
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Agave plants in containers, as they must be worn in winter.
Allium giganteum Globes bold look great in silky grass.
Create a shady place
In addition to providing protection form the sun, shade, such as microclimate, which traps moisture, ie there is less irrigation do for you. Beyond the trees, is the best way to create shade with structures such as pergolas, arbors and pergolas. Indoor climbing on the trainFramework, a natural canopy, and you choose to grow in the shadow of being lovers.
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To cover a screw decorative or fruiting body of a pergola.
Ornamental hops (Humulus lupulus golden try 'Aureus' or the rapid growth of the Chilean glory vine, both look great on a trellis to climb.
Hellebores, hostas, ferns and foxgloves - these are plants that thrive in shady areas beneath the structures.
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A vine with edibleGrapes, like "Concordia", are shadows, and fruit.
Helleborus orientalis produces beautiful shade loving flowers in spring.
Maintain ground cover
Plants that grow to form a carpet in need of a little 'of rain, because they cover the soil surface and must be kept as moist. Shows better drought-proofing, not to leave bare ground target.
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Plants with small leaves and woody stems that creep along the ground like little flowers and leaves of thymehebes.
Everything is on one side of the world with low rainfall, such as the Mediterranean countries. Cotton Lavender (Santolina) and the dwarf lavender are good examples.
Small annual and perennial grasses such as fescue blue.
Sedum, sempivivums and saxifrage.
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In very dry conditions, blue fescue grass looks like an elegant polished metal.
Sedum 'Carl' has large flowers attract butterflies will.
Add drama with surprisingSurvivor
If you want a lush tropical garden looking for, these plants are part of the look, but can survive with very little water. It is scale - choose plants with large leaves or flowers.
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Large plants such as Phormium and Cordyline tip.
Variety big and thick as the spurge, which will also survive, gravel and acanthus.
Honey bush (Melianthus major) and the smoke bush (Cotinus coggygria), which have the largest,lush leaves, which we filled with tropical plants.
Begonia rex for its dramatic color and foliage.
Yuccas to hear that a dramatic and compelling as "jungle" to have.
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Acanthus is a resistant plant with large leaves and strange flowers with pointed ends.
Euphoria characias has huge green flower spikes in early summer.
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