The Climate Change Garden, UPDATED EDITION: Down to Earth Advice for Growing a Resilient Garden

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It's no longer gardening as usual. The long-predicted extremes of weather caused by climate change are now on our doorstep and gardens around the world are suffering. There's no getting away from it; no matter where on the planet you live, the climate and weather patterns are changing fast, and our gardening practices need to catch up .Learning how to protect the garden against the extremes of torrential rain, storms, heatwaves, and drought is key. The Climate Change Garden reveals which plants are better suited to deal with such extremes and which techniques, practices, and equipment can be put to good use in our gardens to help temper the issues. This is a global gardener's guide to climate change that shows readers how to adapt and cope with the volatile weather extremes that lie ahead. It's about working with the natural world to create a productive, low-maintenance, climate-wise garden.

Sally Morgan is a botanist with a life-long interest in gardening. She's written articlesand books on food, farming, and the environment and owns an organic farm where sheteaches courses on small farming (empirefarm.co.uk). Sally is the editor of OrganicFarming magazine and gives talks on various garden- and farm-related subjects acrossthe United Kingdom and beyond. Kim Stoddart writes for publications such as The Guardian on climate changegardening and resilient gardening. She has gardening columns in several magazines,including Grow Your Own and Country Smallholding, and edits The Organic Way forGarden Organic. Kim also contributes regularly to a range of publications, suchas Gardeners' World magazine, Bloom, The Telegraph, The Lancet, and The DailyExpress. She is a homesteader and runs courses online and in person viagreenrocketcourses.com.

"With the climate emergency, 'gardening as usual' no longer applies and we need to learn how to adapt to prolonged droughts, intense storms, and wildly fluctuating temperatures. The Climate Change Garden is the in-depth guide you need to learn how to manage climate extremes and build resilient gardens." -- Niki Jabbour, author of The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener and Growing Under Cover "This timely and essential guide will help gardeners implement key changes to increase the resiliency of their landscapes. The authors offer both pragmatic and creative approaches to address the challenges we are already experiencing and provide a wealth of actionable items to help us adjust our gardening traditions." -- Susan Mulvihill, author of The Vegetable Garden Problem Solver Handbook and The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook "I love this book. It's the savvy guide to future proofing your garden against the increasing extremes of weather through climate change." -- Frances Tophill, Gardeners' World presenter and author of Rewild Your Garden