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We've got a lot of rain forecast and I thought it was worth for us gardeners just giving you a few tips of what we do in the garden here.

If we know we're going to have a week of thunderstorms, as we quite often do as we know in April, but actually increasingly we've been having that right

through the summer. And perhaps if you live in a part of the country where rain is pretty

persistent. So obviously, if you live in a part of the country that has a high rainfall, then it's

right plant, right place. So, you know, the things that thrive in moisture, I always think of things like, okay,

water's in the base of a hedge. So primroses, any of the polyanthus family will thrive. And then,

you know, higher up, what about the honeysuckles and wild clematis, some of them,

but particularly the honeysuckles, will really thrive in a moist environment where it's

really, really wet. And then hydrangeas are just fantastic for a wet climate. I mean, obviously,

that list is minuscule, but if I lived in a place with very high rainfall, those are the things I go

for. And then if you live not in a place with normally

high rainfall, but we're getting these absolute skybursts and cloud bursts, then I think

mulching is the most key thing. So we mulch with our own compost. And what that means is it's a

little bit heavy and you could use bark on top

of it, but it just means that the soil doesn't wash away and you protect the roots because

what you don't want is erosion around the roots of things like trees. And with very heavy rainfall,

you can just suddenly see half your garden, whooshing off down the drive into the rivers.

And mulching, I think, is about the most important thing you need to do for that.

And then also with the storms becoming really increasingly common,

I think water storage is absolutely key.

So a maximum number of water butts to store for when water is

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