Climate and drought resistant plant

How can the garden arm itself against climate change?

Survival artists, whose original home is the steppes of America, the arid regions of Asia or the barren Mediterranean region, can easily cope with the changed conditions. These so-called climate plants often also help insects, because these drought-tolerant perennials bloom for up to six months.

These shrubs are drought resistant

The trees and shrubs listed below hardly suffer from a lack of water, provide wonderfully cool shade in summer and are wonderfully suitable as house trees:

sweetgum: Heat, drought and frost can the sweet gum little, which is why it is traded as one of the most beautiful climate trees. With its star-shaped leaves, which turn bright orange-red in autumn, and the trunk covered with thick cork strips, this tree is also a visual highlight.

Mulberry: Both those originating from China White Mulberry as well as the Black mulberry from the Middle East and those native to North America Red mulberry cope wonderfully with the changing climate. The pretty trees also provide aromatic fruit that you can eat raw or make into jam and juice.

Other trees that are thriving in the warmer weather include:

• twine tree
• trumpet tree
• Bubble Ash
• Willow-leaved Pear.

Drought-loving, nectar-rich flowering plants

Many of our well-known perennials have to be supplied with water regularly in the summer months, otherwise they would not survive longer periods of drought. scented plants such as lavender, thyme or steppe sage, on the other hand, prefer barren, water-poor locations and still bloom persistently throughout the summer. They also provide plenty of food for bees, butterflies and other beneficial insects that have become rare.

The flower umbels are a real feast for insects the sedum. The perennials with the unflattering name, which belong to the succulent family, are able to store water in their leaves. They also survive longer periods of drought well.

The roller from southern Europe does not need to be watered at allspurge. This succulent makes interesting-looking, cylindrical shoots that spread out in a circle and end in small, yellow umbel flowers.