Hotter, drier Summers and water shortages are forcing the nation’s gardeners to abandon traditional British flowers and expanses of green lawn in favour of Mediterranean-style planting.
The Save Our Great British Gardens campaign aims to arm the nation’s gardeners with advice on preserving and enjoying their gardens in spite of hotter summers and reduced water availability. Traditional country garden flowers can still be grown, even if the drought hits again. It’s just a matter of evolving gardening techniques in the context of climate change, rather than evolving the look of our gardens.
If British gardeners carry on changing the style of their gardens, future generations may grow up in a land that’s lost its gardening heritage; where lush lawns have been replaced by low-maintenance gravel and where the traditional flowers of our childhood have been practically wiped out.