I came upon this Huffington Post blog post by Paula Crossfield , the Managing Editor of civileats.com about a new USDA report on farming and climate change. Whether you agree with her politics or not, it's an interesting take on what the arguments looks like in the US.
At last week's Oatridge Conference , University of Edinburgh expert Dr David Reay's talk on the consequences of climate change for Scottish horticulture would have left anyone thinking the industry has a cast-iron case to take to government on the vital role horticulture has to play in mitigating...
- P.S. John... was that Greek tragedy kind of hubris or just the ordinary ? - A good question Melanie. You know, I think both kinds apply. In Greek mythology hubris manifested as excessive pride toward or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis. In a way, garden centres/the gardening industry, in many...
A rumour that the Garden Media Guild was preparing to 'drop' one of its most sought-after awards, the Environmental Award, because 'everyone is a green writer now' caused more than a few raised eyebrows among gardening communicators. Eyebrows reached their limits when the Guild's...
I thought "broadcaster and gardener" Monty Don came over pretty well on last night's Question Time , certainly compared to the Sun 's bloke-down-the-pub Kelvin MacKenzie and evasive immigration minister Liam Byrne. Perhaps Monty's career is about to take another turn - though it's...
I’ve discovered Birmingham has more trees than any other UK city. It even outnumbers most European cities. Birmingham expanded over the once northern reach of the ancient Forest of Arden during the industrial revolution when the population boomed. Even today there’s dense tree cover (including many descendants...
Yes climate change is serious. I agree and am doing my bit to reduce emissions, etc. That’s ticking along just fine. But honestly I’m more interested how CC will affect my garden next year and the next 5-20 years. As too are the gardening public I speak to daily as an advisor. I get tired of all the...
This looks like an expensive failure in researching the fundamentals of climate variability/change. The predictions for the UK future climate, in a warming scenario are for wetter conditions as a warm and moist Atlantic airflow meets cooler polar streams, which results in precipitation. Rather like we've...
Blooms of Bressingham has revealed it will open more trialling sites this year to help meet demand for drought tolerant plants. Blooms of Bressingham president Gary Doerr said the firm was planning the changes in order to test plants in a more varied range of conditions. “People are looking for...
