It's no secret that at least where I live here in California, we're under some serious

drought restrictions for watering.

Most cities can only water two or three times a week for a specific amount of time.

I don't believe my particular city yet San Diego is under that restriction but it might be

coming pretty soon.

So a good time to be talking about drought tolerant plant options with Rebecca Sears,

who is back on the show, the Chief Gardening Guru at Ferry Morse.

I know Rebecca, in the beginning of the week, we talked about your zone, 6B, Massachusetts,

is drought ever a problem where you're at or are you pretty much good?

You don't have to say we're fairly lucky in that regard and actually where I live specifically

the nickname is Water Hill.

So we have a lot of natural wells and springs in our area but all that being said, I still

think it's really important to think through your water use and to select plants that

you know are going to be fairly drought tolerant, not just because of the environment but

also for the time and money you'll save yourself.

Yeah, for us, we just had a conversation with someone on the show about natives here

and obviously California being relatively dry natives being native, it would imply that

those are the ones we should be looking at at least here for things that do pretty

well.

I could throw some narrow leaf milkweed in the ground and trust that once established

it's not going to need constant irrigation day after day.

Yeah, for sure.

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