“We have endured wetter springs and milder winters, which has necessitated a reappraisal of plants deemed suitable for periodically dry soils”
Most of us have a patch of dusty earth – even those of us who garden on what is diplomatically called ‘stiff’ soil. It may be open to drying winds and baking sunshine and, as a result, it will be capable of being transformed into a dustbowl with remarkable rapidity once the endless spring rains are nothing but a memory.
Alternatively, the patch of earth may be shaded but sucked dry of moisture by a
