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How your garden can help beat climate change 16 Aug 2013 | 01:06 pm
Our seasons are confused and becoming increasingly unpredictable. If you have a garden you will have noticed the effects of this weird weather on plants and wildlife but the good news is that your ga...
July 2013 third warmest since 1910, 14 Aug 2013 | 01:36 pm
Met Office figures show that, with a mean temperature of 17 °C, July 2013 was the third warmest in the national record going back to 1910, behind 2006 (17.8 °C) and 1983 (17.3 °C). Much of this weathe...
Bumper fruit crop for UK gardens 12 Aug 2013 | 08:42 pm
A late autumn is set to bring a bumper crop of fruits and berries for wildlife in UK gardens and countryside. Fruiting is expected to be delayed after a late spring but the recent warm weather shoul...
RHS highlights gardening and climate change 11 Aug 2013 | 01:42 pm
Richard Bisgrove is Senior Lecturer in Landscape Management at the University of Reading .He has written this excellent article for the RHS website about climate change gardening which offers an excel...
How Britain’s gardeners are coping with hot summer 8 Aug 2013 | 10:21 pm
As UK summer temperatures stay high in the UK and gardens experience long sunny days with little rain there is much horticultural chat about the effects of this beautiful weather on UK gardens. Leadi...
Summer solar power 5 Aug 2013 | 04:01 pm
This wonderfully warm UK summer is not just a great boost for our gardens but the solar power market is really heating up. Long sunny spells and a surge in people installing PV panels has result...
UK growing season lengthens by 1 month 3 Aug 2013 | 02:31 am
The UK growing season for plants is longer than at any time since records began in 1772. Since 1900 it has lengthened by 30 days – a whole month – which makes a real difference to the range of flowers...
Gardening with UK lack of 23 Jul 2013 | 01:55 pm
Summer 2013 is proving to be as big a challenge for gardeners as the longest winter on record that they have just experienced. This has to be the year to explore using plants that cope well with drou...
Climate change seeds saved for future crops 23 Jul 2013 | 01:10 pm
An international operation has been launched to save seeds from wild plants which scientists believe could be crucial in protecting crops from the potentially devastating impact of climate change. ht...
Heatwave and drought challenge flora & wildlife 20 Jul 2013 | 05:08 pm
While many of us are enjoying the heatwave, naturalists have urged the British public to help wildlife struggling to survive as water and food supplies have dwindled in the heat. After six consecutiv...
