My Global Garden

Gardening in the Global Greenhouse

1. March 2010

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 sets [...]

RHS grow fruit and veg by phone

26. February 2010

0 Comments

The RHS have just launched a free innovative RHS Grow Your Own iphone app at http://www.rhs.org.uk/iphone This is part of an excellent on-line campaign to encourage Grow Your Own in 2010.The aim is to build a UK map showing where people are growing their own produce and to find out what crops are most popular. 15,ooo individuals [...]

RHS greets an icy 2010

9. January 2010

1 Comment

The UK is in the grip of a Siberian freeze with temperatures down to -20 in parts of Scotland. The RHS is particularly suffering the cold - reports suggest it that has lost its grip on the UK’s gardening pulse and is facing an extremely challenging 2010. Would love to know your thoughts on this controversial article [...]

RHS explores hardiness issues

7. January 2010

2 Comments

The RHS has now closed its UK survey to find out more about how hardiness is affecting the plants that we grow. The survey asked for specific detail about how plants in your garden coped with the very cold winter of 2008/9. Results are expected soon. Last winter was the coldest UK winter for 13 years [...]

RHS gardens in global greenhouse

11. November 2009

1 Comment

The RHS have updated the climate change pages on their web-site with excellent information about how gardens are already being affected by climate change and possible future scenarios. http://www.rhs.org.uk/Gardening/Sustainable-gardening/Gardening-in-a-changing-climate/Current-Situation## Much of this information was first highlighted in the horticultural paper entitled “Gardening in a Global Greenhouse” which inspired me to set up this web-site.” This was originally [...]

Climate change cycles

22. October 2009

0 Comments

On Radio 4 today, Melvyn Bragg explored the geological history of our country going back over 400 million years when the UK was located south of the equator near to where Australia is today and Scotland was a separate entity situated near to the equator.http://www.thelamornasociety.org.uk/Pages/Geology.htm Some 300 million years ago, the UK was covered with a tropical rainforest [...]

Gardening in a changing climate at RHS Wisley

7. September 2009

0 Comments

Gardening in a changing climate at RHS Wisley

Yesterday I took part in the climate change walk around the RHS Wisley gardens in Surrey which is part of the British Science Festival taking place this week. Climate Change Gardening is obviously a subject close to my heart so I was disappointed to see that I was the only person on the walk ! The [...]

Climate Change help from RHS

24. August 2009

0 Comments

The Royal Horticultural Society as the UK’s leading gardening charity has embraced the issues facing gardeners as a result of climate change. It provides excellent climate change information pages on its web-site with advice about the issues our gardens are facing - both now and in the long term future. http://www.rhs.org.uk/climate/index.asp On 6th September RHS Wisley and [...]

RHS Hampton Court Show highlights Global Gardening

7. July 2009

0 Comments

Today is the first day of the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show and gardeners all over the country will be heading to the Palace grounds for 6 days of horticultural fever. Good news that temperatures are now a comfortable 20c. Still plenty of sunshine around and most importantly we are having lots of lovely [...]

RHS green energy at Hampton Court

2. July 2009

1 Comment

Great to hear that the RHS is creating a major Garden Energy feature, the first of its kind in the UK, to illustrate the impact of climate change on the garden, from 1950 to 2050, and how to ameliorate its effects. The RHS commissioned Sarah Eberle to create the design at the 2009 Hampton Court Palace [...]