My Climate Change Garden

Climate change crop garden wins at Hampton Court

7. July 2010

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Hadlow College’s Food 4 Thought display has been named best small garden at the Hampton Court Flower Show.It uses fruit that may be grown in Kent as a result of climate change in the future. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/10532841.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/10340866.stm

Hampton Court highlights climate change

3. July 2010

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The world’s largest flower show starts in just 3 days.The Hampton Court Flower Show runs from 6-11 July and is the highlight of my horticultural year. If you have never been it is a fantastic event full of inspirational ideas for the garden. It is much less designer focused than Chelsea and you get the […]

Hosepipe bans cloud sizzling temperatures

1. July 2010

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Hosepipe bans cloud sizzling temperatures

The english summer is sizzling with Mediterranean-style temperatures – even my bougainvillea is in full flower which is unusually early. The UK just exeprienced the hottest week so far in 2010 and the good news is that these warm conditions are set to continue.Temperatures today are expected to reach 29c across southern England as Murray […]

Capital Growth inspires Edible Estates

1. July 2010

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This week Capital Growth announced an incentive for housing estates in London to get involved with growing their own food via community gardens: “We want every housing estate in London to have a community food growing project, we want to see communities coming together to celebrate good food and we want Londoners to go to […]