Monty Don on Gardening with Changing Weather
BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast
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How to Deal With the Extremes of the UK Climate
I garden in Essex not far from from Beth Chateau actually so a very different kind of you know UK climate to the garden you have but crumbs last summer. I now think that tender perennials are not viable for me because for years we lifted them and stored them, she says. We only heated one greenhouse this year despite heating costing 10 pounds plus a day it got down to minus 7 inside the greenhouse and it was minus 15 outside it. So we were just losing plants anyway and as well as filling out space and the whole thingSo I now think we have to change our whole approach to planting which my generation was bought up on a summer display that you would introduce plants
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