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In praise of climate change

WE hear a lot about the evils of climate change, but, for gardeners, it brings problems and opportunities in equal measure. It is only an unmitigated Bad Thing if you love the horticultural status quo and cannot cast off your shroud of gloom. Please forget everything you have been told about the unilateral wickedness of climate change—and scorn the batty arguments of those who deny that changes have happened and are happening. Change is upon us—and it

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