Research
Climate change
Gardening in the Global Greenhouse
Time
might be running out for the English country garden and the
great British lawn. Some of the best loved features of UK
gardens are under threat as a result of the impact of climate
change.
Climate change will affect millions of domestic gardens in the UK and could ultimately threaten the long-term survival of some historic and public gardens and parks and their plant collections.
Within the next 50 to 80 years, the quintessential 'English country garden' and the great British lawn could become increasingly difficult and costly to maintain and some traditional garden features may have to be replaced by new ones, more suited to changing conditions.
These are among the top findings of the first major report to look at the impact of climate change on UK gardens and the gardening industry. The study has been commissioned at a time when the vulnerability of gardens to the vagaries of the weather is becoming increasingly apparent. The report has been recently published under the UK Climate Impacts Programme.
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Trees in a Changing Climate
Does climate change signal the end for the trees making up the UK's traditional landscape? Are Mediterranean Aleppo Pines soon to be a familiar sight in southern England, and beech forests in northern Scotland?
These are some of the questions raised at a landmark conference on 14 and 15 June 2005. Experts in the fields of horticulture, arboriculture, forest science and ecology debated the effects and implications of climate change for tree survival, species choice and cultivation in our woodlands, parks and gardens, and how the forestry, conservation, gardening and heritage sectors should respond.
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