Waterwise Garden: Sustain Your Garden Through Drought and Flood

Waterwise Garden: Sustain Your Garden Through Drought and Flood

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 an award-winning landscape designer and principal at Tom Massey Studio, a London-based practice renowned for pioneering sustainable and ecologically responsive gardens. A popular presence at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, Tom has designed and exhibited four gardens, including the WaterAid Garden (with Studio Weave) in 2024, which was awarded an RHS Gold Medal. Designs for home gardens have garnered Tom further awards, and brought him to a wider audience as a featured designer on the BBC television series Your Garden Made Perfect .