Plants resistant to droughtwill work well in gardens set up in highly sunlit places, easily warmed up, with light, very permeable soil.Plants resistant to drought are also a good solutionfor people who visit their garden or plot irregularly and are not able to provide the plants with adequate watering. Here are the suggestions forthe most interesting drought-resistant garden plants
Drought-resistant plants
Many people havesunlit gardens with poor, quickly drying soils Thanks to various cultivation procedures and installation of the irrigation system, you can also set up a beautiful garden with many plant species popular with us. However, its maintenance will require a lot of effort and, unfortunately, it may turn out to be expensive (including the cost of watering for watering). If we have a plot outside the city, we visit it only on weekends and we do not have time for regular care, thenperiods of drought during summer may turn out to be deadly for our plants
Therefore, I recommend a much simpler solution in such a situation - choose for your gardenplants resistant to drought and tolerating poor soilAdopting such an assumption does not mean that the choice of plants will be very limited, a monothematic garden. On the contrary - many of these plants are very interesting exotic plants with an unusual appearance. There are also aromatic herbs among them. Any effort put into the appropriateselection of plants at the stage of designing and setting up a gardenwill pay off when you see that over time such a garden requires much less care.
The current climate change- increasingly milder, humid winters and dry hot summers have made traders meet our needs and offer an increasing selection ofresistant plants for droughtThere is even a new term xeriscaping from the Greek xeric, meaning drought-resistant. In Polishwe call such plants xerophytes
Xerophytes are drought-resistant plantsoccurring in water-poor habitats. They can withstand a great drought. They occur where there is a permanent or periodic water shortage for plants (steppes, deserts, semi-deserts, dunes, sands). We can divide them into sclerophytes (dry plants) and succulents. Sclerophytes, unlike succulents, do not save water when they have enough water. Numerous mechanisms that allow them to survive a drought are activated in these plants only when water is scarce.
Drought-resistant plants have adapted to dry conditions in various ways , gaining interesting foliage and habit.Examples of plants that have adapted to drought through the shape and structure of their leaves are swarms and sedum plants (fleshy and thickened leaves), garden yucca and gypsophila (leaves covered with hairs or wax), tamarisk (very fine leaves, which reduces the evaporation surface), and robinia (has the ability to change the position of the leaf blade to the direction of sunlight).
Frost-resistant prickly pear - this cactus is very drought-tolerant and can grow in the garden
Otherways of plants to adapt to periods of droughtis the creation of a very deep root system (it occurs, among others, in junipers) or, on the contrary, a flat, but very extensive system of small roots (good an example is grasses.)
Typical solutions for developing a garden with drought-tolerant plants include a rockery or gravel gardenThe exotic appearance of such a garden will be enhanced by frost-resistant cacti, e.g.prickly pears. It is also a good idea to plant taller trees thatwill cast the shade much needed for shorter shrubs and perennials in hot weather
Here are examples of drought-resistant plants :
Deciduous trees and shrubs:lilacs, peel, bilberry, broom, four-stalk tamarisk, creeping willow, privet, black locust, hawthorn, red oak, rowan, ash maple, tartar maple, vinegar sumac, golden cabbage,
Coniferous trees and shrubs:Californian fir, blue spruce, Scots pine, black pine and mountain pine, as well as many junipers (creeping, horizontal, Sabine).
Herbs:sage, lavender and rosemary,
Perennials:geranium, dotted carnation, spring love, evergreen dress, seaside beaver, gypsophila, swarms, sedum, anemone, yarrow, yarrow (common and meadowsweet), primrose bush, fescue blue . The one-year-old large-flowered purslane, which blooms very nicely from summer to autumn, also does very well in dry and sunny locations.
It is much more difficult to find drought-resistant vegetables, because water deficiency very quickly reduces the yield and deteriorates the taste of vegetable plants. Deep-root vegetables are best tolerated during periodic droughts, as they find it easier to reach the water deeper below the earth's surface. They are mainly root vegetables, such as: carrots, parsley, beetroot, horseradish.
