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A room with a blog view
Here are some of the garden views that provide the inspiration to write this blog – depending on the seasons and the weather of course. My garden is just one of the places I observe our increasingly unpredictable weather and find inspiration to write about climate change gardening. Our seasons are […]
Continue reading...How are UK gardeners coping with climate change?
29. February 2020
Gardens Illustrated recently asked Head Gardeners at National Trust properties up and down the UK how they were having to adapt to climate change while still preserving the history and heritage of their garden for visitors in the process. https://www.gardensillustrated.com/gardens/gardeners-adapt-climate-change/ Gardening in a changing climate brings new opportunities and encourages innovative ways to manage and plant […]
Continue reading...Gardening in a changing climate
29. February 2020
The original inspiration for my websites about climate change gardening came from an impressive document produced in 2002 by the Royal Horticultural Society,the National Trust, English Heritage, the UK Climate Impacts programme and other environmental /horticultural organisations. Entitled ” Gardening in the Global Greenhouse, the impact of climate change on our gardens”, it clearly […]
Continue reading...Gardeners key to observing climate change
28. February 2020
Did you know that almost 50% of UK adults are engaged in gardening? Or that domestic gardens account for nearly 25% of urban space? Or that garden soils store almost 25% more carbon per unit area than arable soils? All of this means that gardeners are well placed to notice and understand the effects of climate […]
Continue reading...How your garden can help beat climate change
14. February 2020
You may have noticed that our seasons are becoming confused and increasingly unpredictable. If you have a garden you will regularly observe the effects of unseasonal and extreme weather on plants and wildlife. The good news is that your garden can help to combat these changes – particularly if they are in the city as […]
Continue reading...RHS Gardening in a changing climate
10. February 2020
A report was launched in 2017 by the RHS to help gardeners to adapt to climate change as the seasons shift and UK weather becomes more extreme. The report was written in collaboration with researchers from the University of Sheffield and University of Reading. The report presented the results of an extensive survey of amateur […]
Continue reading...Climate Change Gardening #TimeisNow
3. February 2020
Climate Gardens is creating interest in adapting to climate change through gardeners personally experiencing the effects of increasingly weird weather in their gardens, right outside their back door. With record breaking heatwaves happening every summer in the UK, gardeners are being challenged […]
Continue reading...Climate change affecting seasons
18. October 2019
A report published by the University of Southampton confirms that on average the end of Autumn is taking place later and Spring is starting earlier in the northern hemisphere. This has huge implications for UK , European and USA gardeners. The project was led by University of Southampton Professor of Geography Peter Atkinson, who worked […]
Continue reading...Climate change gardening
24. August 2019
Richard Bisgrove is Senior Lecturer in Landscape Management at the University of Reading . He has written an excellent article about climate change gardening which offers an overview of the science behind climate change in relation to gardening. Here he summarises the long term effects of a rising temperature for the UK and its gardens: […]
Continue reading...Hottest UK Day ever – July 25th 2019
31. July 2019
The UK’s highest ever temperature has been officially recorded in Cambridge, the Met Office has confirmed.https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/29/met-office-confirms-new-uk-record-temperature-of-387c Cambridge University Botanic Garden measured 38.7c (101.7F) on Thursday 25th July 2019. This beat the previous record of 38.5c (101.3F) set in Kent in 2003. The Met Office have also reported that UK’s 10 hottest years on record have […]
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Have you noticed how the weather in your garden is becoming more challenging?
Are you changing the plants you choose for your garden and how you look after your plants?
I am inviting you to complete a very simple survey to explain how you garden in a changing climate and what internet services you use.
There are just 10 questions and it will take around 3 minutes.
All information will be used to develop international services on the web to help gardeners prepare for an uncertain horticultural future.
Thanks very much for your interest in gardening in a changing climate.
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- How to garden in a changing climate
- #BigClimateFightback – Plant trees to tackle climate change
- Growing season in UK boosted by a month
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1. March 2020
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