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**Saxon Holt s*@saxonholt.com**

> I recently did a piece on drought gardening for Cornell Plantation
> Journal and included a list of nurseries - but non happened to be in the
> northeast part of the country - I have yet to run across a place up here
> that specializes in drought garden plants. Now I have a question from a
> reader asking for something more local. Does anyone happen to know of
> any places I can tell her and the journal readers about?

Carol - Here in the west we have many nurseries that specialize in drought
tolerant plants from our natives and summer-dry, mediterranean climates all
over the world.  The reason is those plants are adapted to our predictable
pattern of summer drought.  Most such plants that are adapted to this
pattern would not thrive in Northeast gardens for all kinds of reasons I
don't need to go into.  The key is plants that are adapted to climate.  I
would simply suggest to your readers that they support those nurseries that
stock native plants.  These may not prosper in dry times but will survive
with minimum water.  In drought, we all must reduce our expectations of what
a garden should "look" like and work on just getting the plants through.

Saxon Holt

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