The high 80s in May? Watering in late October? It feels like each year we are hit with new climate records and garden design challenges. In Del’s presentation, water conservation was discussed, including different gardening practices to grow plants that prefer drier conditions. Del drew on his experience gardening at the Elisabeth Miller Botanical Garden and in his low-water home garden. The Miller Garden is by no means a low-water garden, but it does have a backbone of climate-adapted plants from the native trees, shrubs and groundcovers of the upper woodland to the Mediterranean and southern hemisphere native plants which help add interest throughout the whole year.