Climate Adaptive Gardening: The Essential Guide to Gardening Sustainably

This book covers a range of methods to create a sustainable garden with a low carbon footprint that will continue to thrive as the climate changes in the future. It includes ideas and suggestions on how to design and maintain a low-carbon garden that is still both colourful and productive.

Different lawn options - the low-mown green lawn that the UK is famous for may become a thing of the past, while the wildflower meadow could become the lawn of the future. As droughts become more frequent, water will become a scarce resource that needs to be used wisely. Various options and methods of doing this are discussed. Sustainable, natural and low-technology methods of growing, such as permaculture. Consideration of which plants are likely to adapt and thrive in the changing climate A Plant Directory gives detail on nearly 100 plants to consider growing, along with photos and cultivation advice.

Kelvin Mason, M.Hort (RHS), has spent a lifetime working in horticulture, both in parks sections of local authorities and in education. He currently works at Sparsholt College Hampshire, teaching RHS practical courses. Kelvin is also the editor of the National Vegetable Society’s magazine, Simply Vegetables.