A Look Back At Last Year In The Garden
It has been a mixed year for gardeners. The biggest influence has been the weather or, to be more accurate, climate change.
We were warned of a horrendously dry summer and planted many arid-loving shrubs.
However, the floods soon put paid to them and while you could say it's the unpredictability of global warming, in many ways it just reminded me of a typical summer, wet and miserable.
One thing's for sure though, average temperatures are up and its effects are plain to see - daffies flowering in November and shrubs putting on a second show of flowers in the autumn.
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