Hosepipe bans, dry summers, water butts running low — British gardening is changing, and the RHS has named climate-resilient planting the direction of travel. The good news: the plants that shrug off drought are among the most beautiful things you can grow.

Olives that have survived centuries of Mediterranean summers. Yucca rostrata, built for the desert and hardier than it has any right to be. Indoors, ZZ plants, snake plants and cacti that store their own water and forgive every missed watering — including the fortnight you're on holiday.

The principle is simple: plants adapted to dry climates want free-draining soil, sun, and restraint. Water well to establish in the first season, then largely leave them to the weather. Less work, lower water bills, and a garden that looks better in a heatwave, not worse.