Climate Change Gardening in Australia

Australia is divided into eight different gardening zones because of the huge variations in temperature and rainfall across this massive continent.

Altitude variations or geographical features within each zone modify temperatures and rainfall patterns, breaking up the eight zones even further.
To complicate the issue, climate change is resulting in evolving milder winter conditions in some areas and longer, harsher winters in others. Last summer, extreme heat or rain events played havoc with a lot of gardens across Australia, and the extent of further changes related to extreme weather events is impossible for anyone to accurately predict.

However, Australia can be divided into three basic gardening or growing zones; Warm, Cool, and Temperate  The zone divisions are based on the types of plants that will grow in a moderately irrigated garden in each zone http://aussieorganicgardening.com/?p=298

With such a huge landmass and a history of drought, Australian gardeners began facing up to the effects of climate change on their gardens many years ago.  http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s1201187.htm

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- who has written 872 posts on My Climate Change Garden.

I am not an experienced gardener - more of an enthusiastic amateur who learns by trial and error and who is keen to "manage" the effects of shifting weather patterns on my garden. Writing this blog is my passion and it has evolved over 12 years to inspire engagement with climate change outside our back doors, in our personal gardens and green spaces. My mission is to fertilise and expand this platform to grow a community of global gardeners communicating about the effects of climate change on our plants and exploring how each individual can make small changes in our lives to become more sustainable. The future of our gardens and #OurPlanet is in our hands - please plant your own seeds for our collective sustainable future.

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