Create a beautiful, sustainable garden that is ready for the changing climate

Our gardens are facing new challenges, from summer drought and winter waterlogging to high winds, unpredictable frosts and increasing pest pressures. RHS Resilient Garden offers a practical and forward thinking approach to climate resilient gardening, showing you how to work with the conditions of your garden while creating a space where plants, wildlife and people can thrive.

Award winning garden designer Tom Massey, drawing on the latest RHS research, explains how to understand the needs of your own plot, from soil type and sunlight to wind, water, air quality and wildlife. Along the way, he shares practical projects and plant choices suited to different conditions, as well as ideas for making your garden more sustainable.

Discover how planting a hedge can help reduce noise and capture pollution, how patios can influence waterlogging, ways to harvest rainwater, and simple changes that can support biodiversity while helping your garden cope with extreme weather.

Inside, you’ll find ideas for choosing the right trees, shrubs, grasses and climbers for your garden, inspiring case studies of sustainable garden designs from around the world, and guidance on sustainable materials and planting mediums. Diagrams, infographics and beautiful photography bring the ideas to life.

A practical and inspiring choice for anyone interested in sustainable gardening, wildlife friendly gardens and gardening for biodiversity, this is a useful guide to creating an outdoor space that can remain beautiful, resilient and full of life for years to come.