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What plants will survive occasional flooding here?

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11 years ago

Can anyone help with suggestions of what plants might survive in an area that is hot and dry six to eight months of the year, receives reasonable rainfall for around two months, heavy rains for another two months, and usually floods for at least a week or two. In the height of the wet season a shallow creek (ankle deep) forms and flows through this garden. So far only weed grasses and a small hardy ice plant seem to survive the annual inundation.

Plants need to be small, say no more than a metre in height, preferrably lower, and no trees as this area is close to the house and the direction from which cyclones strike with greatest force. I don't want to end up with a tree through the house.

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