Tough Plants: Garden Gladiators That Pack a Punch in Extreme Weather

Featuring over 40 beautiful, hard-working species, Tough Plants will ensure your garden withstands even the most extreme weather.

There’s nothing more soul-destroying than cultivating your beloved garden with beautiful plants, only to see them die a death from heatwave, frostbite or flooding. In extreme weather, the go-to plants of the past are no longer tough enough to survive and thrive. Enter Tough Plants: forty of the most irrepressible species that will flourish whatever the weather.

With species from across the world, expert advice on planting and garden structure, five perfect partners for each entry and multiple variations for the ultimate garden inspiration, this book is a stylish, practical guide to plants that can literally weather the storm.

Most climate change gardening books deal with dry planting. In Tough Plants, award-winning garden writer and plantaholic Val Bourne shares her wealth of horticultural knowledge so we can fill our spaces with plants that will not only cope, but bring beauty and interest to our environment.

Val Bourne is an award-winning garden writer, hands-on gardener and committed plantaholic. Recent winner of Garden Media Guild’s Digital Writer of the Year, she manages her third of an acre garden without using chemicals - something she has always believed in. Her latest book The Living Jigsaw, is all about her eco-friendly garden. She has been interested in the natural world since childhood and has actively tried to influence gardeners to be greener in order to help the survival of our planet. Val has been judging RHS plant trials for the past 16 years and she appears in many publications. She began writing in 1995 and is an Ambassador for The Hardy Plant Society.
www.valbourne.co.uk