The Climate Change Garden

The scorching summer of 2018, with its Mediterranean-like high temperatures and many weeks of drought provided a wake-up call for us in the UK, that the long predicted greater extremes of weather, caused by climatic change, were well and truly upon us.

It’s no wonder then that the themes of resilience and working with wildlife dominated the main avenue at the recent RHS Chelsea Flower Show. With demands for positive action around climate change (via grassroots groups like Extinction Rebellion) continuing to grab media attention alongside the changeable weather itself, gardeners across the board are wondering how to better protect their gardens.

Yes, the uncertainty of the future we now face is intimidating. Yet, learning how to protect our precious outside space against extreme, rain, shine, wind, snow and the goodness knows what else ahead of us, will be key. The climatic weather patters of yore are changing and fast…

This new book from Sally Morgan and Kim Stoddart is designed to provide an accessible guide to enabling gardening practices to catch up with the more volatile weather extremes that lie ahead. Providing down-to-earth expert advice on which plants are better placed to deal with such extremities in the first place, and which techniques, practices and equipment can be employed to an existing space, or future designs to help provide a greater robustness over all.

Published by Green Rocket Books with support from sponsors Dalefoot Compost, First Tunnels and Garden Organic, this new book is designed to offer a helping hand into a much more resilient gardening future.

About the authors

Kim Stoddart has written about climate change gardening much over recent years, in the gardening pages of many national publications like the Guardian and in a hands-on capacity teaching more resilient techniques at her training gardens in West Wales. Kim is also the editor of The Organic Way magazine and writes monthly gardening columns for Grow Your Own magazine and others besides.

Sally Morgan is the editor of the Soil Association’s Organic Farming magazine and author of numerous books on the environment, gardening and wildlife. She has been documenting climate change through her writing and photography for many years.

Between them, the authors realised here was a pressing need for a definitive ‘how to garden’ around our changing climate guide that they with their respective experience on the subject could accessibly provide.