Sink and Wall your Garden in Arid Zones

A successful strategy to overcome evaporation, protect plants from both drying hot and cold winds and to conserve water is the sunken garden. Here we see a grandiose garden in a massive fort complex and a modest urban vegetable garden, in the arid zone of western Rajasthan, India.

Two views of Chukalao Bargh Garden with fruit trees, bananas and flowers, Mehengarch Fort, Jodhpur

Sunken vegetable garden of Jaswant Bhagwan Hotel in desert town of north west Rajasthan