Climate adaptation garden /klima tilpasning

This large flower bed close to our house has been designed to catch excess rainwater when we get cloudbursts in Copenhagen. It is a big tank underground that fills with water and then slowly releases it into the storm drains when the storm has past. In the mean time it's planted with beautiful flowers and has been wonderful all summer long, and buzzing with insects.

I biked past it today and was struck again by how lovely the flowers were. But it's awkward to get a good angle on it as it is on hillside.

There's a number of these kind of systems around the city. We are prone to sudden summer storms as well as being low lying and probably in a few hundred years the sea will come for us, at least without serious sea defences off the coast, depending of course on whether the world manages to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in time!
Even then, I'm afraid I'm not optimistic that Copenhagen will see another 500 years. It takes a long time for ice sheets to stop melting.
At least however we have time to plan, and in the meantime some very beautiful gardens.