Unit 2: Climate adaption measures in gardening and landscaping

What is the aim of climate adaptation measures in horticulture and landscaping?

What do we need to consider when we build a garden shed, bridge or fence in a garden and want these structures to be able to cope with the changes caused by climate change?

What do we need to consider when watering the garden so that it can withstand climate change as well as possible?

Trees are part of the infrastructure of a garden or park

Bridges and paths are part of the infrastructure of a garden or park

In future, buildings and paths must be better anchored in the ground in order to withstand heavy rain and storms

When building with wood, you won’t have to pay any more attention in the future than you do today

More hailstorms with larger hailstones are only a problem for plants

Water management will play a smaller role in the future because it will rain much more

A healthy soil with a high proportion of humus and organisms can store more water and help plants to survive longer periods of drought.

Drip irrigation is not suitable for supplying trees with water, as only little water can be transported to the tree by droplets.

Trees are well suited to providing shade for beds and other plants and thus preventing evaporation. This can significantly reduce the use of water.

If you have healthy soil, you do not need additional irrigation.

A healthy soil must be fertilized just as regularly as any other soil.

A healthy soil stores much more water than other soils and therefore needs to be supplied with water less often

A healthy soil must be regularly dug deep so that it is well aerated and remains nice and loose.

Healthy soil requires much more care to keep it healthy.

To keep the soil healthy for a long time, leaves, fruit and other things that fall from plants and trees should be removed as quickly as possible.

In the future you can only plant cacti because it is too dry for all other plants.

In the future you can only plant cacti because it is too dry for all other plants.

The prolonged dry spells put the plants under a lot of pressure. You should therefore choose plants that can cope well with heat.

Plenty of rain is not a problem for plants, after all they need the water to grow.

Plants that provide shade for the soil also help themselves, as they cool the soil and it holds more water, which means that less water evaporates and the plants have more water available.

The best thing to do in the future is to plant a lot of plants that come from tropical regions and can cope better with heat.