My Climate Change Garden

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I started writing this blog in May 2008 when I began to notice how the plants in my garden are being affected by increasingly unpredictable weather patterns.I thought it would be interesting to share this experience with other gardeners.

Since then I have been stimulating debate and establishing the new horticultural concept called Climate Change Gardening to encourage the exchange of information to help adapt gardens to an uncertain future.

Now ranked 1st by google for climate change gardening, this blog is recording how various climatic changes are affecting gardens in the UK, USA and Australia .It is creating an “internet legacy” for global gardeners to reflect in 50 years time on an important period in the history of gardening. 

The climate is changing and bringing weather that is affecting previously well defined seasons. Seasons that for centuries have enabled gardeners to know what to plant at what time of the year in order to produce the flowers and fresh produce that are the essence of any garden.

* In 2011 the UK enjoyed the warmest spring since records began in 1659 and the warmest Autumn since 1985, considerably extending the growing season.

*In the USA, heavy rains, deep snowfalls, monster floods and killing droughts are signs of a “new normal” of extreme U.S. weather events fueled by climate change

*  Australia is vulnerable to the effects of global warming projected for the next 50 to 100 years because of its extensive arid and semi-arid areas, high annual rainfall variability, and existing pressures on water supply

Please share your experiences of how climate changes are affecting your garden with the many global visitors to this blog via the comments section. Here are just a few questions that might stimulate you to respond:

*Which of your plants are thriving in the changing seasons and which are not able to adapt?

* How are you dealing with long periods of drought followed often by heavy monsoon rain?

Gardens are precious places that we need to preserve as a retreat from a busy and polluted world. I hope you will be inspired by what you read and engage with the evolving horticultural concept called Climate Change Gardening.

Happy Gardening!

Debbie Scott Anderson