THE DREAM GARDEN
Some gardeners manage their gardens without using
any water from outside the garden, and therefore do not
deprive wetland habitats of the water they need to survive.
Examples in Britain include Ventnor Botanic Garden on
the Isle of Wight, and parts of Beth Chatto’s garden in
Essex, Sticky Wicket garden in Dorset, and the Royal
Horticultural Society’s gardens at Harlow Carr and Hyde materials such as peat, rock for rock gardens, and by the
Hall. Rain gardens absorb rainfall falling onto nearby hard use of tapwater to irrigate gardens; the death of living
surfaces, rather than sending it into stormwater drainsFor beings in the garden itself, such as the killing not only of
irrigation, see rainwater, sprinkler system, drip irrigation, slugs and snails but also their predators such as hedgehogs
tap water, greywater, hand pump and watering canrs way and song thrushes by metaldehyde slug killer; the death
they garden, or they may enhance their local environment. of living beings outside the garden, such as local species
Damage by gardeners can include direct destruction of extinction by indiscriminate plant collectors; a nd
natural habitats when houses and gardens are created; climate change caused by greenhouse gases produced by
indirect habitat destruction and damage to provide garden gardening.
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