I have to remind myself sometimes that when I first started writing and teaching about a climate change resilient approach to gardening (more than a decade ago), we were living in very different times. The on-the-ground impact of our warming planet wasn’t yet being felt (in the UK at least), and the perception of what (if believed) climate change might mean was very far removed from the reality we are experiencing now. It was commonly thought that we were in for a more attractive Mediterranean climate, with warmer summer weather, so there was nothing to worry about, and in fact wouldn’t that be really, rather nice.
At talks I did for gardening clubs I would pull out examples of the changes taking place as a wayeverything has become more extreme and unpredictable.
