Rose Coloured Spectacles?

[gness]

Am I looking at my many years of gardening through these? I'm sure I had year after year of enjoying the garden without too many surprises from the weather. Then we had dry summers so I began to look at drought resistant plants. Well that certainly brought the rain on...my garden flooded so I looked at plants which would survive in my wet garden.......Now the bloody wind has arrived....the soil is heavy but dry and plants look like they are making a sideways bid for freedom.
So.....if you tell me which plants like the wind I can get them in and that is sure to calm things down. :-) x

[albaqwerty]

Heathers, gness :-)

The tree on Orkney is leaning ever more to horizontal .....

[Psybbo]

Wind turbines look nice

[gness]

So....a wind turbine complete with heathers in hanging baskets? Mmmm x

[albaqwerty]

Get perfumed heathers, so when they go round on the turbine a pleasant smell (aroma) drifts across the countryside :-D x

[Tilly2]

Bindweed is good for windy places.

[daisya]

Tilly..my neighbour loves bindweed...I kid you not. He is growing it against our fence because he loves the flowers. I cannot repeat what I think of his mentality because needless to say we are swamped with it...scream!

[Tilly2]

Now a non wind-up answer. Have you got room to put in some sort of natural wind break, Gness? (Actually, that's a question, not an answer)

[gness]

I quite like bindweed...if it would just share....

Not really Tilly...as sheltered as can be. The garden slopes away from the house quite steeply so it's very open. There is shelter from the neighbours on both sides so it could be worse I suppose....x