As world leaders gather in Glasgow for the COP26 climate change conference, across the UK some of our most famous and beloved public gardens are already instigating changes to tackle the impact of global warming.
Back in the Nineties, global warming was sold by some as a positive — in the UK it wouldn’t be long before we’d be basking in a Mediterranean climate under bougainvillea-clad pergolas amid olive groves and vineyards. But what recent years have shown is that the warming climate is instead producing more extreme weather with periods of drought; prolonged, heavy rain; unseasonal storms and seasons that aren’t as defined as they once were. All of this is making growing plants in our back gardens trickier, but what does climate change
