Wicker beds are just one way of dealing with drought, as the technique actually encourages a kind of reverse absorption, going against gravity, I believe. Wicker beds are something to be researched as I personally have never dealt with them so the Sustainable Gardening Australia website is one to look up.
But on another 'w' topic, I got a call from one of the councils about weeds, and they said they are having more difficulty with chilean needle grass, as this one is harder to detect than the one I have been banging on about ad nauseum. (Us greenies do get a bit nauseatingly repetitive, don't we!)
So just to bore the reader a tad more, the next weed I will raise is the very lofty and weedy Desert ash (Fraxinus angustifolia subsp.angustifolia). Now I only realised at the beginning of my course a couple of years back that this is a naturalised envrionmental weed. It pops up all over my area, and it has a habit of popping up just next to a fence, or a house and if it gets tall enough it will start to uproot your house. Thrice it has popped up in very awkward positions around my home. The trouble is it can grow to literally a height of a 3 storey building, it grows really quickly in all the rain we've been having, and it involves so much maintenance. The one on my boundary with the neighbours is lifting up the concrete path next to the fence. I am happy my neighbours love it as it gives them tonnes of shade on the north western side. However, for me it's not so lovely.
I will attach a photo when next it is light! Perhaps one of my next topics will be non-weedy trees, that don't take so much maintenance.
On another note, the thing I really love about summer is the sound of the cicadas, or is it crickets. Anyway they make a great noise that lulls you off to sleep.
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