RHS Waterwise Garden

Transform your garden into a water-saving and water-absorbing haven that's fighting fit to thrive in an uncertain future of drought and flood.
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 to 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.
Whether dealing with flash flooding or ongoing summer droughts, creating sustainable drainage solutions or designing an ephemeral pond, now is the time to make your garden waterwise.

Tom Massey is a DK author, television presenter, and multi award-winning garden designer based in London. His first book, RHS Resilient Garden (DK global sales 13,460), has been consistently in the Bookscan top 20 gardening books since it published.
House and Garden magazine named TOM as one of the top 50 garden designers and he received the Society of Garden Designers award for best small residential garden in 2022. He has received five medals (two gold) from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, and BBC People's Choice award in 2021. He was one of the designers on BBC2's Your Garden Made Perfect (2021 and 2022).