Whether it's a plot of land with a house, or if you just have a garden - none of it matters if there's not enough water.
Also, the care of plants is always individual for each.
General tips usually do not work, because always different situations prevail.
With us it is the same.
We have eliminated almost everything.
Only plants that are deeply rooted in the ground.
It's too annoying when you have all the work and then everything is broken - rotten etc.With us grows a hazelnut plant, actually rather already a shrub.
The thing is proliferating and every three years I can cut off so much that I have no end of grill wood or firewood for the fire bowl.
Maybe that would be an idea for you to get wood?
However, you first have to wait a few years until it has grown enough.
Fast growing wood could be a possible alternative for the future.
Don't hang your head.
LG.

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