Flood prevention - slow water

Here in the UK, its Flood Prevention Week, and just to ram home the message, we've had a pretty wet week. Here are my 5 tips to creating a flood resilient garden which will help our communities too!

We’re only halfway through Flood Prevention Week and already my garden has received 40mm of water, on top of what was a really wet September. One year ago, much of the country was being battered by Storm Babel which, according to the Met Office, saw the third wettest three-day period for England and Wales since 1891. Thousands of homes were flooded.

Records continue to be broken and we can expect this to continue as warmer air holds more moisture, which means more rain. But on a positive note, there is so much that gardeners can do to make their gardens more flood resilient, and, in doing so, we can make our communities more resilient too. So we all need to do something, however small!!!

Slow it, spread it and sink it

This phrase has been around a while and was first coined by Brook Dolman, a Californian water conservationist. The idea behind …